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A day in Budleigh Salterton (Discovery Days)
Sat. 7 June 2025 at 10:30 am
Free
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Celebrating Devon’s World-Class Heritage: Discovery Days
This year, the Devonshire Association is ‘Celebrating Devon’s World-Class Heritage’ in a project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund which aims to raise awareness of our county’s UNESCO designated natural and cultural heritage and the Devonshire Association’s role in promoting that heritage over the past 163 years.
See this page for details of all the events.
The Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site is being explored in two Discovery Days:
- A day in Budleigh Salterton on Saturday 7 June 2025 (this page), and
- Visits to Beer Quarry Caves and Beer Head on Monday 14 July (see here)
Red cliffs at Budleigh Salterton. Photo © Sue Andrew
Programme for the day
The plan was for talks in Budleigh Salterton Public Hall in the morning and on the nearby beach and at Fairlynch Museum in the afternoon.
- 10.30 Welcome and introduction to the day
- 10.40 Malcolm Hart, Emeritus Professor of Micropalaeontology, University of Plymouth: ‘Palaeontology and palaeontologists of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site’
- 11.20 Coffee/tea/biscuits
- 11.40 David Knapman, local historian: ‘William Buckland, the right man at the right time: how a local Devon boy, and first Oxford Professor of Geology, contributed to our enduring understanding of the Jurassic Coast and what it tells us about our world’
The afternoon walk was cancelled because of the atrocious weather and was replaced by a virtual tour of the cliffs/beach in the Public Hall presented by Malcolm Hart.
There was also an optional visit to Fairlynch Museum to see its nationally important geological collection and other notable exhibits: see fairlynchmuseum.uk
Fairlynch Museum, Budleigh Salterton. Photo ©Sue Andrew
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