A fascinating little Staffordshire Wildlife Trust reserve, providing lots of interest, as it not only is a quiet little haven for wildlife it also holds a lot of geological interest too.
All of this used to be the floor of a warm tropical sea.
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| Brown End Quarry |
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| Brown End Quarry |
If you look closely at the rock fall you can see fossils
There is even a pile of stones you can go fossil hunting in, next time we need to take a geological hammer with us. But we did come across some evidence of shell like fossils...
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| cowslips |
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| Butterbur |
This is a great place to visit and just sit, enjoying the tranquil surroundings
I enjoyed a lovely afternoon at Brown End Quarry during the Easter holidays when we went to one of the Wildplay afternoons that Staffordshire Wildlife Trust organise. The children were given activities and ran around hunting Easter eggs, while I genned up on geological history via the interpretation boards and enjoyed the cowslips. Lovely isn't it?
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