19 July 2025 10:00 - 17:30 The Peak District Millers Dale Railway Station (Disused), SK17 8SN, The Peak District Millers Dale Railway Station (Disused), SK17 8SN
19 July 2025 | 10:00 - 17:30 | The Peak District Millers Dale Railway Station (Disused), SK17 8SN, The Peak District Millers Dale Railway Station (Disused), SK17 8SN
Event overview
Our North West Regional Group is hosting a day trip to the Peak District – renowned for its world class heritage, natural beauty and home to some of the UK’s most spectacular geology and geomorphology. Led by Pete Webb, the trip will explore the geology of the Peak District, stopping at sites such as Miller's Dale Quarry, Ravens Tor, Mam Tor and Windy Knoll.
The trip will take place on Saturday 19 July 2025, from 10:00–17:30.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
These events may be considered for contributing to a recognised continuing professional development (CPD) scheme as part of personal development. Delegates should check their individual scheme requirements.
Further information
To find out more, please contact the group secretary, Thomas Woolley: Geologicalsociety.northwest@gmail.com
Plan for the day
- 10:00 - meet at Millers Dale Railway Station (Disused), SK17 8SN
- Walk to Miller’s Dale Quarry to look at the thick-bedded facies of the Carboniferous Limestone.
- Drive to Ravens Tor, still in the thick-bedded facies, to look at the Miller’s Dale Lower Lava (basalt) and a fault.
- Stop at the old railway cutting at Litton Mill to examine the thin-bedded facies of the Carboniferous Limestone and at an outcrop of the Upper Miller’s Dale Lava.
- Lunch stop.
- Visit to Mam Tor. On the lower slopes, the group will look at the lower members of the Millstone Grit: the Edale Shale, and the Mam Tor Beds for evidence of their turbiditic origin and for plant fossils. The group will also look at the (in)famous Mam Tor Landslip.
- Drive to Windy Knoll, back on the Carboniferous Limestone, to look at the elaterite (biodegraded petroleum) reservoired in the weathered surface of the limestone.
- Drive over Mam Nick, where the group will stop in a lay-by to look at the Hope Valley Anticline and end-glacial landslips galore.
- 17:30 - trip expected to end.
Additional information
- Lunch: Please bring a packed lunch.
- Transport: Transport is not included – please share cars if possible.
- Clothing: It is recommended that attendees wear sensible walking shoes with ankle support and clothing to suit the weather.
- Underfoot conditions: It is anticipated that attendees will walk over 2 km. This will predominantly be over flat grassy paths, but some of the localities will require one or two short steep climbs and uneven craggy ground is expected.
Pete Webb
Pete Webb started in geology at the age of four, when he collected his first fossils in his back garden in Worthing, at the foot of the South Downs. He graduated from London University in 1967 with a BSc in Geology and then spent four years in Kenya doing a PhD on the rift valley volcanics.
After a spell in academia in Nigeria, he joined the oil industry in 1974, working as a Wellsite Geologist in the North Sea. Since then, he has worked in Europe, Africa, South America, Asia and Australasia.
He still works part time as a Consultant Geologist, mostly overseas doing exploration management and giving training in various petroleum related topics. Back at home, he delivers public lectures on various geological topics. In his spare time, Pete looks after Hayfield Parish Church grounds and cemetery and enjoys gardening, choral singing and woodland and moorland conservation work.
The field trip is free to attend. However, there are a limited number of spaces available, and these will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. To reserve your place, please click the Book now button above.