Ambrose, K, Carney, J N, Lott, G K, Weightman, G, And McGrath, A. 2007. Exploring the landscape of Charnwood Forest and Mountsorrel. A walkers’ guide to the rocks and landscape of Charnwood Forest and Mountsorrel. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey.
The guide is available to purchase from the British Geological Survey https://shop.bgs.ac.uk/Shop/Product/BSP_CHARNWOOD
A walkers’ guide to the rocks and landscape of Charnwood Forest and Mountsorrel
by Keith Ambrose, John Carney, Graham Lott, Gill Weightman and Annette McGrath
Bibliographic reference: Ambrose, K, Carney, J N, Lott, G K, Weightman, G, And McGrath, A. 2007. Exploring the landscape of Charnwood Forest and Mountsorrel. A walkers’ guide to the rocks and landscape of Charnwood Forest and Mountsorrel. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey.
Cover photograph: The front cover features scenes from Bradgate Park. The main picture is a view eastwards across Cropston Reservoir, with cleaved Precambrian rocks in the foreground. In this park can be found typical Charnwood walking country, the famous landmark of Old John Tower, and herds of deer.
Walking photograph: © Libraryphotos.com. Deer photograph: © istockphoto.com
Old John Tower photograph: Reproduced by permission of the Bradgate Park Trust
Welcome to Charnwood Forest and Mountsorrel
Useful information
Further reading
The National Forest
Further information
Acknowledgements
Walking in Charnwood Forest and Mountsorrel
The geological timescale
Plate tectonics and the rocks of Charnwood Forest
Precambrian — volcanoes, seas and the dawn of life
Cambrian — the sea advances
Ordovician — more magmatism
Silurian and Devonian — orogeny, and the Caledonides mountain belt
Carboniferous — warm seas and coral reefs
Permian and Triassic — deserts and mountains
Jurassic and Cretaceous — tropical seas
Quaternary — the Great Ice Age
Walk 1: Buck Hill, Out Woods and Beacon Hill
Walk 3: Cademan Wood and Grace Dieu
Walk 4: Charnwood Lodge Nature Reserve
Walk 5: Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood
Walk 6: Ordovician granodiorite at Castle Hill and quarry, Mountsorrel
Walk 9: Mount St Bernard Abbey
Walk 10: Hill Hole Quarry, Markfield
Stone in Charnwood Forest’s buildings