Bucks Geology Group

Buckinghamshire Geology Sites to Visit

There are simply so many parts of Bucks where you can see geology and landscape. These are as varied as quarries, river banks, beautiful hills and building stones. But here is a short list to get you going. More information on some of these sites is available from the links above, or come to one of our events and ask us directly:

	Whiteleaf Nature Reserve
	Coombs Quarry, Thornborough
	Buckingham Sand Pit
	Beacon Hill, Ellesborough
	Brill Hill
	College Lake
	Downley Common
	Hartwell Estate walls
	Holtspur Bank Nature Reserve
	Ivinghoe Beacon to Incombe Hole
	Northmoor Hill Nature Reserve
	Bradwell Abbey
	Great Linford
	Haversham Mill river bank
	Ouse Valley Park
	Milton Keynes Shopping Centre

A group visit to a small quarry at Burnham Beeches. A very exciting story was discovered here - of melting ice, lakes and re-routing of the Thames River half a million years ago - and all that from a bit of gravel!

Geology is everywhere - at Quainton it is in the stone cross, paths, ammonites in the post office wall, the church (all Jurassic) and of course the windmill is made from locally sourced bricks.