LNHS Events
You can find full details of our events in the calendar on the right and in our downloadable programme. Please note that these events may be cancelled at short notice and we will try to post details on the homepage if possible. For more details regarding the LNHS field meetings please see the Field Meetings page.
The LNHS also has indoor ID sessions and a regular Virtual Natural History Talk series.
The LNHS events programme is one of the most varied and active of a natural history society. Its meetings encourage the interaction of beginners and experienced naturalists.
Field Meetings
LNHS Field Meetings are field recorder days or guided walks. Lunch and Tea should be brought on all whole-day meetings. You do not need to have a car - where the programme says 'cars needed' this is to remind drivers they will need to pick up people at the station or meeting point. At meetings involving cars, those receiving lifts are expected to contribute to the cost of petrol used. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the LNHS Field Meetings, no dogs are allowed except for guide dogs.
Virtual Events
The LNHS Virtual Natural History Talks series began in 2020 and cover topics including (but not limited to) ecology, identification, recording and conservation, and in a variety of groups including birds, mammals, flowering plants, fungi, bryophytes, reptiles and amphibians, and a range of invertebrate groups.
Indoor events
These usually consist of talks, slide shows or discussions. Indoor meetings are held at several venues:
- Burgh House, Hampstead, is a new venue which the Bird Club are using for indoor meetings. See the map here, and their website. Handy tip - If you want to visit the Burgh House museum and exhibitions first, and maybe the charming little garden and The Buttery Cafe, but realise that there is an hour and a half between the house and cafe closing and first arrivals for the talk at 6.30pm (for a 7pm start), there is a very civilised pub (The Wells) opposite the house, not to mention the delights of the rest of Hampstead (inc. the Heath if you fancy an evening walk), just minutes away.
- Seminar and Learning Centre, Sherfield Building, Imperial College (South Kensington, SW7 2AZ) is labelled as building no.20 on this Map. Walking from South Kensington Underground station, take the pedestrian tunnel that leads towards the museums. Follow the tunnel to its furthest extent. On leaving the tunnel in Exhibition Road, turn left to reach the college campus.
- Natural History Museum, Angela Marmont Centre. (Where the LNHS Library is located).
Full programme
Ecology & Entomology
Ecology & Entomology Bedfords Park Geotrail, Havering
Bedfords Park Geotrail, Havering Ridge in Northeast London
A mixture of geology and Natural History following the Nature Trail devised by Essex Wildlife Trust some years ago.
14 October 2023 Start 10.30 at the Visitor Centre
Essex Wildlife Trust Bedfords Park Visitor Centre Broxhill Road, Havering-atte-Bower RM4 1 QH
Guided jointly by the London Geodiversity Partnership and London Natural History Society
Bedfords Park is interesting geologically because it is underlain by five different strata, the Tertiary London Clay, Claygate beds and Bagshot sands overlain in places by the much younger pre-Anglian gravel and glacial till, relics of the Anglian icesheet that reached into London as far as Hornchurch 450,000 years ago. The Park is home to deer and because of its range of habitats, a variety of wild life.
There are fine view over London from the Visitor Centre where the geology will be explained. An added attraction is a dolerite boulder discovered locally in post-Anglian gravels and transported to the Visitor Centre when the quarry ceased operating. It has been suggested that it originated from the Great Whin Sill in Northumberland and was transported south by the ice and then washed out into the oldest of the post-Anglian gravels close by as the ice melted.
The Geotrail is c. 3.5 miles long. There are several ups and downs, some with steep slopes which may be slippery if wet. The Visitor Centre serves refreshments as well as running a gift shop.
The walk is free but please register with the London Geodiversity Partnership
If necessary, a pick-up from Romford Station can be arranged.
Further details and a Risk Assessment will be sent nearer the time
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