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Wooden sculptures of mushrooms
  • Partner Events
  • June 28, 2025 8:00 am

Up to the Beacon Sculpture Trail 2025

Discover a host of sculpture spread over a stunning 2.3km circular walk.

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A man walks through the autumn trees at Beacon Hill
  • Geopark Events
  • May 25, 2025 10:00 am

Guided Walk – Beacon Hill Nature Bumble for Beginners

A guided gentle stroll around some younger woodland at Beacon Hill.

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A brightly coloured trail marker
  • Geopark Events
  • May 24, 2025 12:00 pm

Bird Inspired Walk at Beacon Hill – Neurodiverse Adults and Friends Getting Close to Nature

Join artist Lucy Stevens and a birding expert for a guided walk through Lower Beacon Hill following the accessible trail.

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A man walks through the autumn trees at Beacon Hill
  • Geopark Events
  • May 21, 2025 10:00 am

Guided Walk – Beacon Hill Nature Bumble for Beginners

A guided gentle stroll around some younger woodland at Beacon Hill.

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A rock face in a quarry.
  • Geopark Events
  • May 21, 2025 10:00 am

Guided Walk – Forest Industry: Shaping People and Landscape

This walk celebrates the physical and human geography of this industrial part of western Charnwood Forest, which has been extensively quarried for hundreds of years.

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A guided tour group walks through the green woodland at Beacon Hill
  • Geopark Events
  • May 20, 2025 2:00 pm

Guided Walk – Forest Place-names, Forest People

Using only the evidence from local placenames, we'll take you back in time more than a thousand years to explore the British, Anglo-Saxon and Viking communities of Charnwood Forest.

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A late evening view of a rocky face of an old quarry.
  • Geopark Events
  • May 16, 2025 2:00 pm

Guided Walk – Geological Treasures of Shepshed

Discover some of the oldest rocks in England, and travel back in time to when Leicestershire lay at the centre of a giant sandy desert!

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Wildlife Trust volunteer holding two moths.
  • Geopark Events
  • April 23, 2025 9:00 am

Beginners’ Wildlife Monitoring Training

Join the Geopark and friends for a free beginners training session in wildlife monitoring

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Images of archaeological test pitting, a group, and portrait of Prof Carenza Lewis
  • Geopark Events
  • December 11, 2024 7:30 pm

Unearthing Beaumanor’s Past: the Results from Test-Pit Excavation

Join Prof Carenza Lewis for a free evening lecture and discover some of the finds that were unearthed this summer at Beaumanor Hall

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