Trail 2

The Louis Barrow Trail

Around Bournville and Cotteridge Park

Sub-vertical layering in volcanic rock erratic of Cotteridge Park
Large boulder in Selly Oak Park
Boulder in Cotteridge Park

The trail starts at the main entrance to Bournville Station.  A map of the route can be found below.

For more on Louis Barrow and the intriguing story
of the Bournville Boulders click here.

For a brilliant video about Cotteridge Park and the science behind the boulders, done as a school project by Ryan Bendle,  click here.

A printed copy of the guide (folded double-sided A3 size) is available from The Shed at Cotteridge Park, at project events, or from the Earth Heritage Trust at https://earthheritagetrust.org/

You can print off a copy yourself by downloading the A4 version (4 pages) here.

If you want to follow the route on a hand-held GPS device, click here to download a .gpx file.

 

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Herefordshire & Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust   Visit  https://earthheritagetrust.org/

Lapworth Museum Visit  https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/lapworth-museum/index.aspx

Black Country Geological Society Visit  https://bcgs.info/pub/

Birmingham Open Spaces Forum Visit https://bosf.org.uk/