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Many of the craggy rocks of Charnwood Forest are of volcanic origin and are very old, dating back through 600 million years to Precambrian times. [9] It was the site of the first-ever recorded discovery of Charnia masoni, the earliest-known large, complex fossilised species on record, recovered from a quarry near the Charnwood village of Woodhouse Eaves.
This is the last remaining building of the Charnwood Forest Canal. The now derelict Charnwood Forest Canal alongside the entrance to Longcliffe Golf Club in Nanpantan. Until the end of the eighteenth century the City of Leicester had received its supplies of coal by packhorse from the Charnwood Forest coal mines around Swannington.
The Maplewell Group is an Ediacaran lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) present in Leicestershire in the English Midlands.The strata are exposed in Charnwood Forest, west of Leicester.
The genus Charnia was named after Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, England, where the first fossilised specimen was found; the species was named after Roger Mason, a schoolboy who was believed to have initially discovered it. Charnia is significant because it was the first Precambrian fossil to be recognized as such.
It is set within the Charnwood Forest. Crossroads in Charley photographed June 2006. The name 'Charley' means 'wood/clearing with a cairn'. [2] A quarry within the parish was the source of Charley Forest whetstones. [3] Charley is near to Shepshed, Copt Oak and Whitwick.
Charnwood is a local government district with borough status in the north of Leicestershire, England. It is named after Charnwood Forest , much of which lies within the borough. Towns in the borough include Loughborough (where the council is based), Shepshed and Syston .
Swithland Wood is a public woodland in Charnwood Forest, in Leicestershire.Although close to the village of Swithland, it is almost entirely within the parish of Newtown Linford, just north of Bradgate Park and also near Woodhouse Eaves and Cropston.
The Charnwood Forest Railway was a branch line in Leicestershire constructed by the Charnwood Forest Company between 1881 and 1883. [1] [page needed] The branch line ran from Coalville (joined from the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway (ANJR)) to the town of Loughborough.