09.06.2008John Macadam / Earthwords, geologist & writer
09.06.2008
Guides are available for the areas below - so far, and you can read reviews of each of them. Click on any coloured bits to get you to the description of the relevant guide. The blue ones mark walks you can download for free. Some of the guides, or parts of them, are downloadable free too. And translations into French, German, Spanish and Dutch are free downloads.
The larger map shows (from the west, on the left) the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall and Devon, but there is also interpretation for Staffordshire, in the Midlands.
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Brown End Quarry, Staffordshire "Fancy a swim in a warm tropical sea? Then come to Brown End Quarry." There's a guide to Brown End Quarry in Staffordshire, and you can open up the thumbnail on the left to see the interpretation panels slightly better. The panels are available to download separately. You can also see the double-sided flyer. There's also an education pack (on a CD), available from Staffordshire Wildlife Trust.
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Roche Rock and the Tresayes Trail A leaflet produced in 2006 for Cornwall Wildlife Trust. You can download it as a pdf, at around 3 MB, from the CWT website. I hope to have links to pdfs of the 3 interpretation panels - one at Roche Rock and two in Tresayes Quarry - soon, but until then you can open up this picture of visitors at the Roche panel:
(with thanks to Jonathan, Jelle, Paul and Joshua Hoekstra from Eindhoven!) and you can open up images of the panels from these thumbnails:
** Walk here on October 18. See free trips. **
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Bodmin Moor - 400 million years in the making A leaflet, booklet and a bookmark! Launched April 2003, reprinted (March 2005) with revised French and Dutch translations. The 20 page A5 booklets have been printed in English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch, and have been web published - as pdfs at around 1 MB - in those 5 languages ( English French German Spanish and Dutch). You can download a bookmark in the shape of a cut-out granite tor (you'll need to cut out the cut-out!). And a leaflet in 6 languages which is an A4 double-sided sheet, folded twice. It has the cut-out shape of a tor on the front so you can print it out on stiff paper and you'll have your own little stand-up tor. Far better to come to Cornwall and see the real thing!
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There's also an A3 poster map for schools, which is available as a
low resolution pdf (374 KB) here, or schools can
ask for a 14 MB pdf on a CD (as well as the glossy printed A3 sheet).
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In 2005 two more bookmarks (one is a lighthouse cut-out, the other a
road-core) were added. You can see the two cut-out bookmarks on the left. This work on Bodmin Moor got awards in the Cornwall Tourism Awards 2004 and 2006.
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Saltern Cove Local Nature Reserve "Come with me for a stroll across the beach to Saltern Cove" invites Shawn the Prawn. It's a trail for families, looking at both rocks and marine life. The trail starts and finishes at the excellent Seashore Centre in Goodrington, in Torbay, Devon. You can read the introduction now. And you can also gallop through 400 million years in just 400 words! For a copy please send one first class stamp and a stamped
addressed envelope to The Seashore Centre, Goodrington Sands, Paignton TQ4
6LS
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Strangers on the Shore? - pebbles on Charlestown beach
You
can download this family-friendly guide
to the pebbles on Charlestown beach for free. For the
And you can download translations of the text in
You can also get a printed copy by sending a stamped addressed envelope to Support Services, Countryside & Historic Environment, Cornwall County Council, Truro TR1 3AY Format is folded A4, full colour.
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Explore the Landscape & Rocks of the St Austell area You can buy this guide for the St Austell area for £2.75 (includes postage) from Support Services, Countryside & Historic Environment, Cornwall County Council, Truro TR1 3AY Over the counter it is in the Eden Project's shop, local tourist information centres, etc. You can download two tasters for free: the
Rocking Trail
Format is full colour, laminated A5 cards in a plastic wallet.
16 A5 sides in all.
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A Geological Guide to South East Cornwall for £2.75.. These are laminated A5 cards, in a plastic wallet, like the St Austell set above - and now at the same price (originally £3.99). Here's a taste. If you want this guide please contact me and I'll send it post free for £2.75 (UK) or €5 (Europe) or $5 (anywhere else!).
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A geological trail between Pendower & Carne. This is free - just send a stamped addressed envelope to Support Services, Countryside & Historic Environment, Cornwall County Council, Truro TR1 3AY You can download the text only (MS Word). Format is folded A4, full colour. Specially for the BBC's Open Country listeners: If you send me a sae I'll send you a copy of this leaflet. Or you can request one from the Cornwall CC address above. My address is John Macadam, Little Kirland, Bodmin PL30 5BJ
I'm pointing out to Richard Uridge, of the BBC, the horizontal beach deposits above the sloping 350 million years old slates As a comment on the programme, global warming is a problem for humans .. and of course a problem for wildlife too because we have fragmented habitats. In the past species had more freedom to migrate as temperature changed.
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A Geology Guide to North Cornwall for £2.99. You can buy this from the British Geological Survey office in the Natural History Museum, London - they have the last copies. Again, these are full colour laminated A5 cards, in a plastic wallet, as you can see better if you click on the thumbnail.
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The guides are available from the charity Thematic Trails, based near Oxford, UK, which sells a range of over 100 landscape and geology trails and booklets. Retail outlets which
wish to stock the titles published by Cornwall County Council can obtain
supplies through West Country Books.
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The Two Moors Way is a recreational path linking Dartmoor and Exmoor. The route runs from Ivybridge on the southern edge of Dartmoor to Lynmouth in Somerset on the north of Exmoor. It's 143 km (89 miles) long. This guide-book has Ordnance Survey maps, lots of photographs (by Mike Williams) and information on its 144 pages. The maps are 1:25,000 scale ('Explorer'). ISBN 1-85419-458-6
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The South West Coast Path is Britain's longest National Trail at 1008 km (630 miles). This is the official guide to the Padstow to Falmouth stretch - that's about 170 miles of glorious walking! The guide-book has 144 pages: Ordnance Survey maps, lots of photographs (by Mike Williams, Bren Unwin and others) and lots of information (about 27 thousand words worth including an article on Cornish/Kernewek and place names in Cornwall). The maps are 1:25,000 scale ('Explorer'). The five editions have sold over 28 thousand copies. The sixth edition was published in April 2007. ISBN 1-85410-098-X and
0-31900-196-2 for the 1st, 1990, edition.
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