{"id":5364,"date":"2019-07-10T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T11:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=5364"},"modified":"2023-06-13T08:03:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:03:50","slug":"visit-of-geopark-president-launch-of-les-morris-memorial-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2019\/07\/visit-of-geopark-president-launch-of-les-morris-memorial-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit of Geopark President &#038; Launch of Les Morris Memorial Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the Geopark Chris Darmon, will be visiting the Geopark on 13th and 14th July. His itinerary includes visits to the National Trust at Croome and Dudmaston. On Sunday 14th he will launch the Les Morris Memorial Trail at 11.30 in the orchard at Dudmaston. This self guided discovery trail covers over 30 locations throughout the Geopark. In the afternoon at Dudmaston starting at 1.30 there is a guided geology walk around the state.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5366\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LesMorris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5366\" class=\"wp-image-5366 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LesMorris-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LesMorris-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LesMorris-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LesMorris-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LesMorris-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LesMorris-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LesMorris.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Les in red top, on one of his many field trips<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Les Morris (pictured below) was a geographer and geologist who spent his working life as an educator. A wonderful man and founding member of the Geopark, Les had time for anyone interested in the formation and evolution of our planet and the landscapes upon it.&nbsp;Les had a vision to bring this story to everyone by unlocking the vast store of our natural heritage tucked away in stone built walls.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5365\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dudmaston.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5365\" class=\"wp-image-5365 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dudmaston-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dudmaston-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dudmaston-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dudmaston-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dudmaston-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dudmaston-400x267.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dudmaston.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of Dudmaston Estate showing one of the many rock outcrops<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the Geopark Chris Darmon, will be visiting the Geopark on 13th and 14th July. His itinerary includes visits to the National Trust at Croome and Dudmaston. On Sunday 14th he will launch the Les Morris Memorial Trail at 11.30 in the orchard at Dudmaston. This self guided discovery trail covers over 30 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5367,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions\/5367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}