Journey from the Centre of the Earth
Whitchurch Museum & Archives Heritage Centre, 12 St. Marys Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire, SY13 1QY
Whitchurch is renowned for being the only town in Shropshire to have been continually inhabited on the same site since being built in Roman times. So why not visit the volunteer-run Museum and find out about the history of Whitchurch and its surrounding villages ?
A special display for Heritage Open Days focuses on geological core samples extracted recently from a borehole on local farmland. The results date back nearly 200million years to the Jurassic Age when Whitchurch was a desert and dinosaurs were walking on the earth.
During November and December 2020, a deep borehole was drilled just off the A49, around a kilometre north of the village of Prees, south of Whitchurch in north Shropshire. This enabled the JET (Early Jurassic Earth System and Timescale) project science team to obtain a continuous core of rock in order to decipher the chronology and environments of the early part of the Jurassic Period between around 201 and around 174 million years ago.
The drill cores on display are on loan from the British Geological Survey.
Timings & Tours
- Friday 13 September:
- 10.00 - 16.00
- Saturday 14 September:
- 10.00 - 16.00
Location & directions
Whitchurch Museum & Archives Heritage Centre, 12 St. Marys Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire, SY13 1QY
- Contact on day:
- Judith Hoyle 01948664577
- Telephone number:
- +441948664577
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Pre-booking not required
