Dorset Geologist’s Association Group (DGAG) and Dorset Building Stones will host a Field Trip on the Saturday 29th November 2025.
Title: Blandford Building Stone
Leader : Kelvin Huff/ Sheila Alderman
Time: to be advised
Location: to be advised
Entry Cost: to be advised
Booking: to be advised
Description: You may have seen the proposed Autumn fieldtrips in the December newsletter.
Full details will follow closer to these dates on the scope, how to express your interest in joining us, what to bring, and where to meet etc.
Feel free to keep an eye on both the DGAG website and facebook pages for all updates on these.
We will need willing volunteers to write each of the trips up and thank you in advance for this and of course to the trip leaders above.
I look forward to catching up with you during the year.
Jonathan Stiby
Fieldtrip Officer
Photo: Courtesy of Dorset Building Stones website – Blandford Chapel
Additional Links: As and when available
1. Dorset Building Stones website with good sections on geology and fossils
Tag: Dorset Building Stones
Field Trip: Dorset Building Stones Group. B: The Building Stones, History and Geology of Milborne Port
Dorset Building Stones Group. B will host a field trip on the Tuesday 24 September 2024
Title: The Building Stones, History and Geology of Milborne Port. (Fully booked on 24th September but a repeat visit could be arranged) Contact Sheila Alderman on alderman.sm@gmail.com about going on a waiting list or repeat trip as this date is fully subscribed
Leader: Martin Gledhill/Sheila Alderman
Location/Time: Contact Sheila Alderman: start time 10:30 am
Cost: Contact Sheila Alderman
Registration: Contact Sheila Alderman
Event Description: Milborne Port is an ancient village with roots going back to Saxon times. It was centred round 2 manors, one of which, Kingsbury Regis, was a royal manor from the time of Alfred the Great to that of Henry VIII. Other buildings we will see include Ven House (a William and Mary mansion), the Parish Church with Saxon and early Norman features, the 18th century Town Hall, the butcher’s shop which has a Norman doorway as it was originally a mediaeval guildhall, the market cross, the ball court, picturesque thatched Newtown, Manor Farm, 2 former gloving factories and Kingsbury Mill and the mill stream which gave the village its name.
Photo: Courtesy of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milborne_Port#/media/File:The_Old_Town_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4170772.jpg
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