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Welcome to the English Riviera Geopark and a landscape of dramatic changes, of exploration and discovery.
A landscape untouched by glaciation, revealing stories unseen elsewhere in the world. Stories of tropical seas and scorching deserts, raised beaches and drowned forests, hippopotami and mammoth, straight-tusked elephant and sabre-toothed tiger, cave bear and earliest man.
News from the Geopark
22 Feb
A NEW film has been produced promoting all the fun of Torbay's Geoplay Park.
15 Feb
CHURSTON Ferrers Grammar School is linking up with schools in Hungary, Italy, Norway, France and Germany
18 Jan
CONSTRUCTION of the new English Riviera Geopark Trail began at the end of 2013.
10 Jan
TORBAY is to bid to host the internationally prestigious Geopark Global Conference in 2016.
3 Jan
Torquay Museum is launching a new permanent, interactive exhibition on Saturday December 14
1 Jan
WHILE David Cameron has been to China for business, a group of Chinese visitors came to Torbay to admire its beauty.
1 Jan
Students and teachers from Churston Ferrers will visit their partners and work on joint projects over the next two years through the Comenius programme
10 Sep
The decisions of the Global Geopark Bureaux have been announced and the Network now has 100 members around the world.
More news...
Events in the Geopark
14 Dec - 22 Feb
Torquay Museum
An exhibition of work by young people collaborating with multi-media artists, inspired by the...
9 Mar
Occombe Farm
Fancy having a go at making your own sausages? From chipolatas to chorizo, the world of the...
5 - 21 Apr
Kents Cavern
Go underground this Easter. It's always 14C in the cavern. Fun cave tours all day every day....
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Meet our patron
Television's favourite geologist Prof. Iain Stewart is patron of the English Riviera Geopark.
Iain is the presenter of Journeys from the Centre of the Earth, the award winning BBC series Earth - The Power of the Planet and his current BBC series How Earth Made Us.
See what Iain has to say about his role as Geopark patron
Hong Kong Geopark
In November 2009, the English Riviera Geopark signed a partnership agreement with the Hong Kong Geopark, allowing both Geoparks to strengthen
their international relationship. Click here to find out more about our sister Geopark
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