30 March 2025 (10:30 - 16:00)

Wessex Group: Chalk Water valley, Exmoor

A second chance to join us for some exciting upland bryologising after the original meeting (November 2024) was scuppered by Storm Bert.

16 February 2025 (10:30 - 16:00)

Wessex Group: Cheddar Gorge, Somerset

19 January 2025 (10:30 - 16:00)

Wessex Group: Southern Mendip scarp, near Ebbor, Somerset

15 December 2024

Wessex Bryology Group: Lyscombe, Dorset

3 November 2024

Wessex and Southern Groups joint meeting: Mill Lawn and Burley Rocks, New Forest

24 March 2024

Wessex Group: Beacon Hill and Bulford

An interesting corner of Salisbury Plain military training area with some strong populations of chalk downland bryophytes.

25 February 2024 (10:30 - 16:00)

Wessex Group: Lydeard Hill and Aisholt Common, Quantock Hills, Somerset**CANCELLED**

Our February meeting is in the lovely and bryologically interesting Quantock Hills, not far from Taunton.

14 January 2024

Wessex Group: Piggledene, Marlborough

Piggledene is one of a cluster of sarsen stone sites near Marlborough and Swindon that are in the careful custodianship of the National Trust. The Wessex group has previously visited the largest of these, Fyfield Down, where we found many interesting bryophytes.

10 December 2023 (10:30 - 16:00)

Wessex Bryology Group: Oakers Bog, Briantspuddle, Dorset

If you like Sphagnum, this meeting at Oakers Bog won’t fail to impress. This SSSI is a magnificent and relatively intact L-shaped valley mire on deep wet peat in an extensive complex of heathland, valley mire and woodland in the Poole Basin.

19 November 2023

Wessex Bryology Group: Chancellor’s Farm, North Somerset

Chancellor’s Farm is a Somerset Wildlife Trust reserve held on a lease from the Ministry of Defence. Access is by permit only, but the Trust has kindly allowed us to visit and record the bryophytes of this unspoilt, historic landscape in the Mendip Hills.