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Resources

Have a look at the geological collections in Cumbrian museums.

Information on Geocaching & Earthcaching, useful publications and the geology project in Westmorland Dales. Links to interesting websites given at the end of the page.


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Tullie House Museum, Carlisle:

Regionally important geology collections.

Tullie House is currently closed for refurbishment. Due to open summer 2024.


Kendal Museum

Kendal Museum:

Sedgwick & Ruthven room opened in Oct 2023 by the Geologists' Association. Plus an excellent digital resource where you can view photographs of local rock and mineral collections.


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Keswick Museum:

A varied collection mostly from local sites and well representing the complex local geology, industrial activity and the work of important 19th Century collectors. 


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Coniston Copper:

Heritage Lottery Fund 2016. To find out more about the geology of this special place, how the copper-mining industry developed, or about the miners and their families who earned their livelihoods from it, click here.


Ruskin Gallery

Ruskin Museum, Coniston:

The museum has a Ruskin collection and also exhibits relating to the coppermines, slate, geology, lace, farming and Donald Campbell.


Geology of the Lake District

Geology of the Lake District:

A resource by Clive Boulter. It bridges the gap between researchers and the rest of us who have some knowledge. Speeding up the cascade of information and correcting concepts, long since updated, but still being incorrectly promoted.

Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre

The Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre at Tullie House Museum, Carlisle keeps wildlife information for the county of Cumbria. Tullie House Museum, in its role as a local natural history museum, has collected and disseminated records of wildlife in Cumbria since its inception in 1893. From the early 1990s the Museum has developed a computerised database of species and habitat records in Cumbria and has taken the central role in providing a local biodiversity data service for the county. This role was restyled as Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre (CBDC) in 2010, a not-for-profit organisation hosted by Tullie House Museum and advised by local stakeholders.
Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
Cumbria Biodiversity Data CentreWednesday, October 8th, 2025 at 10:00pm
We're here at #WatchtreeNatureReserve and ready to record.... Here are a few already spotted!

If you're in the area, do drop in to find out more about recording or to take part (after tea and cake in the cafe)....
Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
Cumbria Biodiversity Data CentreWednesday, October 8th, 2025 at 5:49am
We're looking forward to the recording day at #WatchtreeNatureReserve tomorrow! Hope you can join us sometime between 10am and 3pm to record all wildlife at this fantastic site. See you there....
Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
Cumbria Biodiversity Data CentreTuesday, October 7th, 2025 at 4:39am
So pleased to see not one, not two but three amazing Cumbrian recorders being short-listed for the upcoming NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording!

https://nbn.org.uk/news/2025-shortlist-announced-nbn-awards-for-wildlife-recording/

#NBNAwards #WildlifeRecording #Cumbria
Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
Cumbria Biodiversity Data CentreThursday, October 2nd, 2025 at 6:22am
Our latest newsletter has just been sent to all our subscribers. Not received it? View it online from our website!
https://www.cbdc.org.uk/about-us/newsletters/
Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
Cumbria Biodiversity Data CentreTuesday, September 16th, 2025 at 11:47pm
The last CBDC recording day of 2025 takes place on Thursday 9th October @WatchtreeNatureReserve near Carlisle. CBDC will be on site 10am-4pm so please do come along to take part in wildlife recording. Whether you are new to recording wildlife or very experienced, you will be very welcome!

We'll start the session with an introduction to Watchtree. At 2pm, there is a wildlife recording workshop and walk - please book this via the Watchtree website. Otherwise, do drop by to have a go.

More information here: https://www.cbdc.org.uk/get-involved/recording-days/
Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
Cumbria Biodiversity Data CentreTuesday, September 2nd, 2025 at 5:01am
There are still places on the upcoming session "Creating Self-Guided Walks" at Orton Market Hall on 14th September (morning only). If you are interested in how to create such walks - for websites, blogs, for local community groups, for visitors - do come along. Open to all - land managers, farmers, community groups, individuals.

See you there!

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cumbria-ecoskills

#biodiversity #walking #access #walkinginnature #wildliferecording