Wednesday, 22 April, 2026 starts at 19:30
Crosthwaite Parish Rooms
Main Street
Keswick
CA12 5NN
Brian Young (Hon. Res. Fellow, Durham University) will give a talk on ‘Supergene mineralisation in the Lake District – are the Caldbeck Fells a special case?’
Wednesday, 17 June, 2026 starts at 10:00 - 15:00
Seathwaite Farm
Seathwaite Farm,
Seathwaite
CA12 5JX
Leader: David Hasleden, CGS
Billed by the late Clive Boulter as “The best traverse through the best-preserved caldera-fill sedimentary sequence in the world” the excursion will follow Clive’s 2017 joint field trip itinerary through the Seathwaite Fell Formation. The field itinerary can be found on Clive’s website https://englishlakedistrictgeology.org.uk/.
The excursion is around 8k with 540m of ascent and maximum altitude of 630m. The approach is on good mountain paths, but the geological traverse is on pathless open fell, steep in places with some simple scrambling. Meet at Seathwaite Farm at 10am. Parking is available for free on the Seatoller to Seathwaite Road – usually very busy, or for £5 per day (2025) at the farm.
CGS Risk Assessnment Seathwaite Fell 2026
Wednesday, 29 April, 2026 starts at All Day
Loweswater Shore
NY 12771 21803
Loweswater
Leader: Phil Davies, CGS
Meet at 10am  NW of ‘Pinfold’: NY 1277 2180. The track heads NW from the rendezvous point: green dots on this map. Limited side-of-road parking at various places along Loweswater shore.
Wonderfully exposed structures in Ordovician age Skiddaw Group strata (Loweswater Formation) north of Loweswater: complex slump folding at Askill Knott; thrusts and folds on the lower slope of Darling Fell; dramatic fold and shear structures in the closure of the major Loweswater anticline viewed from below Low Fell. See The Cumberland Geologist No 4 (thrusts, Darling Fell); and No 5 (Askill Knott and drone photography).
Please read the Excursion Information (including Risk Assessment) before booking.
CGS Excursion Information and Risk Assessment 29 Apr 2026 Loweswater
Thursday, 16 April, 2026 starts at 10:00 - 15:00
Walna Scar Car Park (paid)
SD 2889 9701
Coniston
Leader: Richard Wrigley, WGS
Examination of latest Ordovician to late Silurian rocks unconformably overlying rocks of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group. Total walking distance (moderate) is about 6.5km. In places it maybe wet underfoot. (Participants are recommended to have read GA Cumbria Guide Volume 2, itinerary 2.3).
As there is limited parking at the start, attendees are requested to car share where possible.
Please read the Excursion Information (including Risk Assessment) before booking.
RW Windermere Super Group Excursion Information
Wednesday, 11 March, 2026 starts at 19:30 - 21:00
Braithwaite Institute
Braithwaite Institute, A66, Braithwaite
Keswick
CA12 5RY
AGM papers will be made available before this event, and the business of the AGM will be concluded as swiftly as possible.
Dr David Schofield (Nuclear Waste Services) will give a talk on “Terrane Tectonics in the Appalachian-Caledonide Orogen from the perspective of Great Britain and Ireland”.
This meeting is in the Braithwaite Institute.
In advance of the AGM, members attention is drawn to the 2025 Financial report which is now available on the website in the Membership Financial Reports page.
Other papers for the AGM were included in the Spring Newsletter CGS_Spring_Newsletter_2026
