Martin Curtis is an Ambassador for the Jurassic Coast Trust, and runs an elite walking group based in Dorset. For this latest blog entry, Martin tells us about a recent walk he led in Purbeck. As a trainee Mountain Leader based in Dorset, given the lack of mountains in the area I’m naturally drawn to…
In our latest blog, author Tim Britton, tells us the story behind the making of A Mighty Tale, the film and the book. Read on as Tim gives us a fascinating insight into the creative process, all told in his own unique way…! If you haven’t already seen the film click here – you can also…
I spent last weekend showing two international visitors around the coast, and experienced the dramatic differences in perception wrought by a change in weather. Saturday was gloomy, rain-swept and fog-drenched. We started off at Lyme Regis, parking amidst a torrent of horizontal rain and ducking straight into the fabulous Aroma Cafe for some hot chocolate.…
The afternoon of Tuesday 21st October saw the launch of the English Geodiversity Charter, in the august surroundings of committee room 11, Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament to those unaware it was a palace). A fitting location perhaps given the marvellous stone in which it is is built, a point made at least once…
Last week I had a few days off and decided to be a bit of a tourist in my own county. My partner and I headed off to Golden Cap after months of driving past and saying ‘We must go for a walk there’; now was the perfect time to do it. We couldn’t have…
Time for another dip into the soup of geological concepts that underpin the Jurassic Coast. This offering comes from Sam Scriven, Earth Science Adviser for the Jurassic Coast. Deep Time Deep time – not the time we watch tick by when bored. Not time measured with birthdays, seasons and celebrations. No. Deep time stretches backwards…
I took a walk on my Birthday. My wife, Lydia, came with me, both of us freed from sleeping children by a kindly babysitter. It was evening, late August. Dusk was spreading its purple-yellow tinge across the clear sky and the day’s warmth was slowly fading from the air. The route I had picked out…
Mapping the Undercliffs foreshore The Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs National Nature Reserve is probably the most wild and remote part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It is the product of massive landslide activity that dates back tens of thousands of years into the last Ice Age. The famous Bindon landslide of 1839…
This Sedimental was written by one of our Jurassic Coast Ambassadors, Norah Jaggers. Her ideas led to the development of a new display in the Self Shelter on Beer seafront, telling the story of how a bedrock of Chalk has helped to nurture the community Beer for thousands of years. Rocks and Humans. Beer is an unconformity…