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Sawley's Abbey, founded in 1147 AD, became the home of group of Cistercian monks for the best part of 400 years until it was dissolved in 1536. Monks joined protestors in the rebellion against the Dissolution of many of the north's Catholic monasteries. Two of the Sawley monks were arrested and executed by order of Henry VIII and concluded with the Abbey being dismantled.
The main walls and night stair remain on the site. It is also an excellent picnic spot in the heart of the Craven Basin. |
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FIELD TRIPS 2011
Saturday: 9 April
Waddington Fell Quarry and Ashnott Knoll.
Guide: Paul Kabrna & Alan Whalley
Sunday: 8 May
Limestone knolls around Whitewell.
Guide: Jean Chicken, Paul Kabrna & David Turner
Weekend: Friday – Sunday, 10-12 June
Geology of Anglesey.
Guide: Paul Kabrna
Saturday: 16 July
Glaciation and geomorphology around Kisdon, Upper Swaledale.
Guides: Jon Barber Ph.D., University of Leeds
Saturday & Sunday, 20-21 August: (Organised by the Yorkshire Geological Society)
Askrigg Block and Craven Basin.
Guide: Colin Waters (BGS)
Sunday: 18 September
Craven lowlands around Gargrave and Skipton.
Guide: Paul Kabrna
INDOOR DATES FOR 2011 – 2012
Friday: 14 October 2011
Friday: 11 November 2011
Friday: 9 December 2011
Friday: 13 January 2012
Friday: 10 February 2012
Friday: 9 March 2012
Friday: 30 March 2012
23 November 2010
October and November resumes now uploaded in Programmes.
3 May 2010
Details of four of the five field meetings are posted in the Programme area.
22 February 2010
Refreshments: tea and coffee may be back on from 16 April meeting. To be discussed next meeting.
Indoor Programme: 2009 to 2010
Friday, 16 October
Bowland Forest: unveiling the secrets of an ancient cold war. Paul Kabrna
Friday, 13 November
Turbulence, displacement, death, and worms: molluscs in the Millstone Grit
Speaker: Ian Kane Ph.D., Leeds University
Friday, 12 February
Evidence of global sea level change across western Ireland and northern England during the mid Marsdenian (Carboniferous). Rachael Dale MGeosci (Hons), Leeds University
Friday, 12 March
Redevelopment of the Rotunda Museum - 180 years in the making. Will Watts, Scarborough Museums Trust
Friday, 16 April
Members Evening.
Friday: date to be confirmed
Rhyolite glaciovolcanism at Oraefajökull Volcano, SE Iceland: a window on Quaternary climate change.
Angela Walker BSc., Manchester University
15 April 2008
Updated the Grassington page which includes the Lead Mining Trail.
All the society indoor talk reports are uploaded for 2007 to 2008.
5 April 2008
'Vote of Thanks' by Bernard Peel for Deborah McCormack' after he talk on Rapid climate change and glacial growth in NW Scotland last Friday evening in the lecture hall of the Rainhall Centre.
13 February 2008
Please note that Dr Mark Bateman from Sheffield University will give the society a talk on The ebb and flow of the Yorkshire margins of the last British ice sheet. This talk replaces the one due to be given by Dr Peter Vincent (7 March).
2 February 2008
Resume of the end-Guadalupian mass extinction talk is posted.
16 December 2007
Resumes of the first two talks are now online.
2 October 2007
A JOHN MILNE book review by Professor Paul Wignal is now available here.
31 August 2007
Indoor meeting programme is now complete. Also, note that our venue is now the Rainhall Centre in Barnoldswick!
9 August 2007
The indoor meeting programme is complete bar November.
20 April 2007
Details of all field trips are now available in the Programme section.
3 April 2007
Last indoor meeting resume now available. Photographs of Wadi Nukhul and the LYDAR surveying from Dr. Paul Wilson, Manchester University.
25 March 2007
1. Field meetings programme out.
2. New book out (21 March 2007).
Kabrna, P. (2007). John Milne - the man who mapped the shaking earth Published by Craven & Pendle Geological Society. ISBN 978-0-9555289-0-3
24 February 2007
1. Resume of the Yani Najman 'Himaya' talk is posted.
2. New book on 'John Milne' out soon.
3. John Milne Bicentenary talk from 2pm to 3ppm on the 19th March, 2007 at Touchstones, Local Studies Centre, The Esplanade, Rochdale. Download the pdf file on the home page for more details.
4. Field meetings for May and June are now fixed.
6 December 2006
The first two indoor meeting resumes are posted in the Programme section.
7 October 2006
Final programme is out.
16 August 2006
Provisional dates for indoor meetings for 2006 to 2007:
Friday: 27 October
Friday: 24 November
Friday: 15 December
Friday: 26 January
Friday: 23 February
Friday: 23 March
25 June 2006
New official names of the Carboniferous Period are posted. Also updated a few Malham pictures and corrected the chemical equation for tufa formation etc.
8 May 2006
The Man who mapped the shaking earth is posted.
14 April 2006
Details of the field programme are now available.
11 March 2006
Added two images and modified Society photos page
19 February 2006
Added a Gilbertsocrinus preserved in a block of Carboniferous limestone from the Dunsop Bridge area.
15 February 2006
The Disarming Dromaeosaurs is posted.
15 January 2006
Phil Manning's talk on the 17th February has been brought forward one week to the 10th February.
24 January 2006
The Late Devonian Mass Extinction is posted.
17 December 2005
The Carboniferous Crinoids of Clitheroe is posted.
17 December 2005
The Fire & Ice: Alaska volcanics is posted.
22 October 2005
The Volcano-ice-water interaction on Mars is posted.
25 September 2005
Developed a bit more on the Anglesey section covering our recent field meeting there. (Rhoscolyn & Llanddwyn).
1 September 2005
The Indoor Programme is complete. Hope you like it.
29 August 2005
The indoor programme is near to completion. The dates are 21 October, 18 November, 16 December, 20 January, 17 February, 17 March, 8 April. The new section on Anglesey is now on-line.
4 August 2005
The Classic Sites section, the Cliviger Valley section and the Craven Basin section have been overhauled in terms of access. A section on the field excursion to Anglesey (September) is in development.
25 July 2005
From 31st July this year CPGS will become affiliated to the Geologists Association.
9 April 2005
Details of the Summer field meetings are published.
20 March 2005
The Nova Scotia resume is posted.
13 February 2005
The Norber erratics resume is posted.
8 February 2005
The field meetings programme is taking shape. The 6th August is likely to be Little Mearly Clough and Butler Clough (70% sure . . . . so keep looking).
30 January 2005
The Jurassic geoogy of Tibet resume is posted.
31 December 2004
The Montserrat resume is posted.
28 November 2004
The Ediacaran resume is posted.
2 November 2004
The Gem resume is posted.
3 October 2004
The Ingleton section is complete for now (thanks to Hed Hickling for his photos). In future a better view of Raven Ray will be included. Also, a link directly to Salthill SSSI is now on the navigation panel.
26 September 2004
Almscliff Crag geology story complete. Brimham Rocks will be here shortly. More work on the Devensian story in planning.
16 August 2004
Jon Barber's glacial resume is now posted into the 03-04 Programme area. Added a few more corals to the Dinantian fossil section.
14 August 2004
Added a few extra images of fossils The indoor programme is taking shape and the for the first time, provisional filed meeting dates are done.
25 April 2004
Begun to add the Ingleton content. All the top links are now active. I have added a series of diagrams to show how Thornton Force was formed.
15 April 2004
Details of all our four field meetings are now available (Ingleton, Rossendale Valley, Runswick Bay, Almscliff Crag).
5 April 2004
Dates and venues for field meetings completed. Details in press!
28 March 2004
Added the Aeolian Islands resume.
15 March 2004
Added some pictures and a brief account of our field excursion to Ilkley Moor. Thanks to Hed Hickling for the digital photographs.
23 January 2004
Added the resume for the Triassic Salt talk.
4 November 2003
Added a few more igneous rocks. The samples were kindly provided by Dave McGarvie of the OUGS.
10 October 2003
Web Site now held with new ISP. Always use the domain name http://www.cpgs.org.uk to access the site. If you notice FREESPACE in the address bar you will be seeing the old files on the Virgin.Net Server.
3 September 2003
Begun to construct a section on the Ingleton waterfalls walk. There are only 3 parts complete: the Home Page, the Route, and Thornton Force
14 August 2003
Added a diagram illustrating the development of Waulsortian mudmounds in the Craven / Salthill Quarry section of the site.
15 June 2003
Currently looking to transfer the web site to another ISP as I have run out of web space!!
11 May 2003
Updated Silesian Biostratigraphy to conform to BGS method of naming Marsdenian ammonoids.
3 May 2003
Thanks to Dave McGarvie for final editing of the Iceland resume. Now available in the Indoor Programme section for 2002 / 2003.
24 April 2003
Dates for indoor meetings are now set for 2003 - 2004 season. See the Programme section.
The resume for Iceland is posted although it is still subject to a final edit.
21 March 2003
The resume UK's energy needs ...... in a future without North Sea Oil and Gas; a talk given by Dr. Nicholas Riley of the British Geological Survey is now available.
All the field meeting details are now available.
12 March 2003
The field programme is complete. Note the change of excursion from Mineralisation in the Craven Basin to Carboniferous rocks of Anglezarke Moor for the 10th May.
3 February 2003
Added some tabs to home page to facilitate quick access to member and venue information.
25 January 2003
Look out for new material on the Last Ice Age. This small section will focus on classic Devensian features and periglacial classics. |