Great Britain 2023
ITINERARY FOR THE 2023 FIELD TRIP TO GREAT BRITAIN
Day 1. Travel to Edinburgh (Sunday, Apr. 30)
- James Hutton sites
- Salisbury Crags
- Edinburgh Castle
Hotel: Edinburgh
Day 2. Edinburgh (Monday, May 1)
- Royal Mile
- Siccar Point
Hotel: Edinburgh
Day 3. Siccar Point and Travel Day (Tuesday, May 2)
- Bus trip to Cambridge
Hotel: Cambridge
Day 4. Cambridge (Wednesday, May 3)
- Christ's College
- Sedgwick Museum
- Wren Library
- Polar Institute
- Drive to Dudly via St. Peters in Northampton
Hotel: Dudley
Day 5. Dudley to Shrewsbury (Thursday, May 4)
- Dudley Canal and Underground
- Drive to Shrewsbury
- Walking tour of Darwin sites in Shrewsbury
- The Mount
- Rev. Butler's School
- St. Chads
- Unitarian Church
- The Bell Stone
Hotel: Shrewsbury
Day 6. Shrewsbury to Bath via Ludlow, great Malvern, Stow-on-the-World (Friday, May 5)
- Ludlow Bone Bed
- Ludlow Museum
- Type Silurian in Mortimer Forest
- Onny Brook
- Malvern walking tour
- Dr. Gully's Hospital where Darwin received water treatments and where he took 10-year-old Annie to receive treatment from bilious fever (and where she died)
- Priory Church where Annie Darwin is buried
- Geology of the Malvern Hills (Precambrian outlier)
- Stow-on-the-World
- Arrive late in Bath
Hotel: Bath
Day 7. William Smith sites in around Bath (Saturday, May 6)
- Swan Inn Dunkerton
- Tucking Mill House
- Somerset Coal Canal (Monckton Combe)
- Bloomfield Crescent
- Radstock Coal Mining and Canal Museum
- High Littleton and Rugbourne Farm (Mearns Colliery if time permits)
- Great Pulteney Street (#29, home of Joseph Townsend)
- John and Caroline Herschel museum
- Corner of Trim Bridge and Trim Street (shop of Smith and Cruse, Surveyors)
- Roman baths?
Hotel: Bath
Day 8. Lyme Regis (Sunday, May 7)
- Drive to Lyme Regis
- The Cobb
- Blue Lias strata and fossils, Pinhay Bay
- St. Michaels Church (Mary Anning stained glass window, Mary Anning grave)
- Cockmoile Square and Philpot Museum
- Fossil Shoppe/Fish and Chips Store
- Three Cups Inn
Hotel: Beer
Day 9. To London via Downe (Monday, May 8)
- Stonehenge
- Down House International Heritage Site
- Site of the 1852 Great Exhibition and Dinosaurs (Sydenham, SE London)
Hotel: London, GROUP DINNER AT HOTEL
Day 10. (Tuesday, May 9)
- Geological Society of London
- William Smith sites
- Darwin sites
- Murchison home at Belgravia
- Westminster (burial site of Darwin, Lyell, Newton, etc.)
- British Natural History Museum
Hotel: London
Day 11. (Wednesday, May 10)
- Travel homeward