Whitehaven is one of the only places in the UK where fossil plants from the Carboniferous can be collected on the coast both on the foreshore and cliffs. This unique location yields some well preserved specimens.

At Stockdale Quarry, Ordovician slates yield a variety of fauna including trilobites, corals, graptolites, brachiopods, bivalves and gastropods. This disused quarry is situated at the top of a hill.

Unworked since the early 20th century, Clint’s Quarry is now quite overgrown. Some areas of scree can still be found however and within these coral fossils can be collected.

At The fossils found at Hodgson How Quarry can be seen in the local 'Keswick Museum', some superb unusual species of Graptolites are rich in the beds at this disused quarry. This is one of the best Graptolite locations in the Lake District.

The hill of Barrow has a range of various types of chlorite-rich Quartz, some of these can be very hard. Other minerals can be found including apatite and glaucodot. These can be collected in the debris on the South facing slope.

The area of Coniston is quite large, it includes several quarries, several beck's and scree slopes. There is also a number of small cuttings. Graptolites and Trilobites are collected here along with Brachiopods.

Not a location for fossil hunting, but a wide range of minerals can be found in the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, Tilberthwaite Tuffs. Most of the disused quarries here are now filled with spoil but still productive.

At Stockdale Beck, Silurian rocks have been cut through by water and various zones are exposed. There is one particular zone in which well preserved graptolites can be found.

Causey Pike is over 600m high. It is a small mountain with many outcrops of rock and scree slopes. Trilobites, Trace fossils and Graptolites can be found in the scree when climbing towards the summit. This trip is hard going.

Stair Stream runs between Causey Pike and Barrow. During the past occasional graptolites have been found in the stream bed. These have been washed from higher beds. The ordovician rocks in the stream itself are of the Buttermere Formation.