We’d love you to join us
You can attend a range of outdoor events and activities as a member of Bedfordshire Geology Group. We offer a wide variety of events to suit everyone. We arrange field trips, often jointly with other organisations, walks, talks, quarry visits, work parties to restore rock exposures, out of county visits, rock & fossil workshops, museum visits and more.
Non-members are welcome to attend one event for free. Members receive further details about events by email. We hope to see you soon!
Non-members are welcome to attend one event for free. Members receive further details about events by email. We hope to see you soon!
Our next events
Geology Drop-In Sessions
Join BGG members for an informal drop-in session where you can bring along you collections for help with identification and categorising. Sort those rocks and fossils in your garage with the help of our resources.
WHEN: Every 2nd Wednesday of the month
WHERE: The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3XD
TIME: 11am until 1pm
No need to book but for further information please contact
[email protected]
Join BGG members for an informal drop-in session where you can bring along you collections for help with identification and categorising. Sort those rocks and fossils in your garage with the help of our resources.
WHEN: Every 2nd Wednesday of the month
WHERE: The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3XD
TIME: 11am until 1pm
No need to book but for further information please contact
[email protected]
"Coprolites and Bedfordshire's mining heyday:
where they came from and how they were used"
An online talk by Derek Turner
Join us for this Zoom talk by Derek Turner. He will reveal the impact this lost geological industry had on Bedfordshire's landscape and economy.
WHEN: Tuesday 17th February
WHERE: Via Zoom
TIME: 7.30pm
For access to the link and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
where they came from and how they were used"
An online talk by Derek Turner
Join us for this Zoom talk by Derek Turner. He will reveal the impact this lost geological industry had on Bedfordshire's landscape and economy.
WHEN: Tuesday 17th February
WHERE: Via Zoom
TIME: 7.30pm
For access to the link and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Lower Greensand Field Trip
We are planning a Lower Greensand Field Trip in Spring 2026. Although still at an early stage of planning, the trip will take in a number of locations, potentially including Ampthill Great Park, Clophill, Silsoe Quarry and Husborne Crawley Church.
The objectives of the trip are as follows:-
1. To place the Woburn Sands (Greensand) into it’s regional tectonic and depositional setting.
2. Describe the lithostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the Woburn Sands.
3. Enjoy the Greensand country and it’s wonderful vistas!
WHEN: March (To be confirmed)
WHERE: Ampthill Great Park
TIME: 10.30am - 3.30pm (times to be confirmed)
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
We are planning a Lower Greensand Field Trip in Spring 2026. Although still at an early stage of planning, the trip will take in a number of locations, potentially including Ampthill Great Park, Clophill, Silsoe Quarry and Husborne Crawley Church.
The objectives of the trip are as follows:-
1. To place the Woburn Sands (Greensand) into it’s regional tectonic and depositional setting.
2. Describe the lithostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the Woburn Sands.
3. Enjoy the Greensand country and it’s wonderful vistas!
WHEN: March (To be confirmed)
WHERE: Ampthill Great Park
TIME: 10.30am - 3.30pm (times to be confirmed)
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
The Higgins Science Labs
Join Bev Fowlston at The Higgins for their annual Science Labs extravaganza. We will be running short workshops for young people to have some hands-on fun with rocks and fossils.
WHEN: Saturday 14th March
WHERE: The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3XD
TIME: 11am - 4pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Join Bev Fowlston at The Higgins for their annual Science Labs extravaganza. We will be running short workshops for young people to have some hands-on fun with rocks and fossils.
WHEN: Saturday 14th March
WHERE: The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford MK40 3XD
TIME: 11am - 4pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Explore Cambridge's Building Stones
Cambridge is a beautiful city! Why? Because it has a great number of very fine buildings - university. ecclesiastical. public and commercial - built with some affluence, which meant the owners could use stone, and the more fashionable and pleasing to the eye that stone was the better. Join us for this guided walk around the city to see how these different stones were used, where they came from, how building and architectural fashions changed over time with improvements in transport and see what stones are used today to enhance the built environment. Our locally sourced stones tell us about past environments in the area - as seen in the fossils that many of them contain - from Chalk 'clunch' to highly prized Jurassic limestones. Others, such as granite and 'exotic' pebbles tell the story of earth's history elsewhere in the world. You will never walk through the city with the same eyes again.
Easy walking, about 1 mile total. Free but needs booking.
WHEN: Saturday 18th April
WHERE: Meeting point to be confirmed by email
TIME: 1pm until 3.30pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Cambridge is a beautiful city! Why? Because it has a great number of very fine buildings - university. ecclesiastical. public and commercial - built with some affluence, which meant the owners could use stone, and the more fashionable and pleasing to the eye that stone was the better. Join us for this guided walk around the city to see how these different stones were used, where they came from, how building and architectural fashions changed over time with improvements in transport and see what stones are used today to enhance the built environment. Our locally sourced stones tell us about past environments in the area - as seen in the fossils that many of them contain - from Chalk 'clunch' to highly prized Jurassic limestones. Others, such as granite and 'exotic' pebbles tell the story of earth's history elsewhere in the world. You will never walk through the city with the same eyes again.
Easy walking, about 1 mile total. Free but needs booking.
WHEN: Saturday 18th April
WHERE: Meeting point to be confirmed by email
TIME: 1pm until 3.30pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Discover Geology in the North Beds 'wolds' - a car tour
We rarely visit the plateau that is surrounded on three sides by the Ouse valley from Sharnbrook, past Bedford and on to St Neots with the Huntingdonshire boundary to the north that some call the north Beds ‘wolds’. There are no known natural rock exposures in the area but there are fine churches and graveyards and other stone structures worth seeing. Fine rock specimens have found their way into churches, memorials and other features that help compensate for the absence of rock exposures in the northeast of Bedfordshire. Seek them out as we drive around the area, stopping for lunch on the way.
WHEN: Sunday 24th May
WHERE: Meeting point to be confirmed
TIME: 10.30am until 4.30pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
We rarely visit the plateau that is surrounded on three sides by the Ouse valley from Sharnbrook, past Bedford and on to St Neots with the Huntingdonshire boundary to the north that some call the north Beds ‘wolds’. There are no known natural rock exposures in the area but there are fine churches and graveyards and other stone structures worth seeing. Fine rock specimens have found their way into churches, memorials and other features that help compensate for the absence of rock exposures in the northeast of Bedfordshire. Seek them out as we drive around the area, stopping for lunch on the way.
WHEN: Sunday 24th May
WHERE: Meeting point to be confirmed
TIME: 10.30am until 4.30pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Getting to know Turvey
Turvey is one of the prettiest stone villages along the Ouse valley and a little piece of the Cotswolds in Bedfordshire. We’ll walk around the village to learn about its history, see the stone close-up and go a little way beyond to find out where it came from.
WHEN: Saturday 27th June
WHERE: Meeting point to be confirmed
TIME: 10.30am until 1pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Turvey is one of the prettiest stone villages along the Ouse valley and a little piece of the Cotswolds in Bedfordshire. We’ll walk around the village to learn about its history, see the stone close-up and go a little way beyond to find out where it came from.
WHEN: Saturday 27th June
WHERE: Meeting point to be confirmed
TIME: 10.30am until 1pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Walk around Pegsdon/Hexton Hills
Spectacular dry valleys in the chalk scarp of the Chilterns are known as ‘holes’ rather than ‘coombes' in this area. We’ll visit some of them and talk about their origins. Optional pub lunch afterwards.
WHEN: Sunday 19th July
WHERE: Meeting point to be confirmed
TIME: 10.30am until 1pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Spectacular dry valleys in the chalk scarp of the Chilterns are known as ‘holes’ rather than ‘coombes' in this area. We’ll visit some of them and talk about their origins. Optional pub lunch afterwards.
WHEN: Sunday 19th July
WHERE: Meeting point to be confirmed
TIME: 10.30am until 1pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Discover Greenland's geology
by Glynda Easterbrook
Join us to hear Glynda's fascinating talk on the geology of Greenland. There will be refreshments during the talk so come along sit back and discover this enigmatic geological island.
WHEN: Sunday 25th October
WHERE: Husborne Crawley Reading Rooms, Turnpike Road, Husborne Crawley, Beds. MK43 0XB
TIME: 2.15pm until 3.45pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
by Glynda Easterbrook
Join us to hear Glynda's fascinating talk on the geology of Greenland. There will be refreshments during the talk so come along sit back and discover this enigmatic geological island.
WHEN: Sunday 25th October
WHERE: Husborne Crawley Reading Rooms, Turnpike Road, Husborne Crawley, Beds. MK43 0XB
TIME: 2.15pm until 3.45pm
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Landpark Quarry LGS or Totternhoe SSSI practical tasks with the Wildlife Trust
Clearance of vegetation on and around the geological exposure. Details are to be confirmed.
WHEN: To be confirmed
WHERE: To be confirmed
TIME: To be confirmed
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
Clearance of vegetation on and around the geological exposure. Details are to be confirmed.
WHEN: To be confirmed
WHERE: To be confirmed
TIME: To be confirmed
For further information and to book your place, please contact
[email protected]
2026 future events - all details to be confirmed
Summer social and our 22nd AGM
If you have other ideas for events you would like us to organise - let us know!
Summer social and our 22nd AGM
If you have other ideas for events you would like us to organise - let us know!
