Organised by:
Home Counties North Regional Group
Venue:
Car park near Whippendell Wood, Grove Mill Lane, Watford
Event status:
EVENT CLOSED
Stratigraphy, sedimentology, economic geology, hydrology and archaeology of Watford, Aldenham, Letchmore Heath, and Aldenham Country Park, Hertfordshire.
At Whippendell Wood SSSI (for natural history but not for geology), we will see the prediversionary ancestral Thames terrace deposits of the Pre-Anglian Gerrards Cross Gravel Formation, and in nearby Cassiobury Park the Pre-Anglian/Anglian Winter Hill Gravel Formation. The second locality is the banks of River Colne and the Grand Union Canal where we will see the present-day river gravels in the alluvium, and the outcrop of the Seaford Chalk Formation before we have lunch in the café in Cassiobury Park. A scene in Eastenders was filmed in this park not long ago.
After lunch, we travel to Aldenham village to see the building stones of the 700-year old Church of St John the Baptist and other historical buildings in a village that was ranked the least deprived ward out of the 8414 in England! We may have a guided tour of the church by the church warden on the day. Both the church and the village have been used in the filming of the movie Confessions of a Window Cleaner and the BBC television series Pathfinders.The pseudo-sedimentary structures on the Puddingstone rubble stones are interesting and may set the foundation for a future classification of Puddingstone. There is an outlier of Boulder Clay nearby resulting from an ice tongue advancing to the south-west of the village during the Anglian Ice Age. Full details of the trip are available in our flyer.
Leader
John Wong
Time:
10am to 5pm
Cost:
Free
Further details:
Park and meet in the public car park on the north-eastern side of Whippendell Wood on Grove Mill Lane. Watford (Ordnance Survey grid reference TQ080983, post code is WD3). If you would like to get picked up at Watford underground station, please let us know.
There is a maximum of 15 participants for this field trip with priority given to Fellows, Candidate Fellows and Juniors of the Geological Society who are members of the Home Counties North Regional Group. Please email to register
See flyer for more information