20 October 2024 (10:30 - 12:30)

Introduction to Bryophytes hosted by Friends of Corstorphine Hill, Edinburgh

19 October 2024 (10:30 - 16:00)

NE Scotland Group: Rocks of Solitude, Brechin

13 October 2024 (10:30 - 16:00)

Gloucestershire Group: Symonds Yat East

12 October 2024 (11:00 - 15:00)

Irish Group: Geashill, Co. Offaly

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.

10 February 2024 (10:00 - 15:00)

BBS Southern Group: Pamber Forest, Tadley, Hampshire.

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.