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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.
His most popular works include several books of verses and poetry, specifically Songs and Sonnets, Virginia and Charnwood Poems, inspired by a series of walks through Charnwood Forest. Charnwood Poems was published in 1928. He was also the author of several plays, including the musical comedy Dainty Diana.
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Charnia masoni was first described from the Maplewell Group in Charnwood Forest in England and was subsequently found in Ediacara Hills in Australia, [3] [11] Siberia and the White Sea area in Russia, [12] [13] and Precambrian deposits in Newfoundland, Canada. It lived about 570-550 million years ago. [1]
Charnwood Lodge is a 134.2-hectare (332-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Charnwood Forest, east of Coalville in Leicestershire. [1] [2] It is a national nature reserve, [3] [4] and contains two Geological Conservation Review sites. [5] [6] It is managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. [7]
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 wood is Leicestershire's most important ancient woodland for nature conservation. [6]
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.
In April 1957, while rock climbing with friends in Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, he saw what looked like a leaf embedded in the rock. Mason took a rubbing of the rock . He showed the rubbing to his father, the minister of Leicester's Great Meeting Unitarian Chapel , who also taught at Leicester University nearby and knew Trevor Ford , a ...