Question: is there any volcanos in england?

Rebecca Williams answered on 19 Jun 2014:

Hi ievas!

There are a few volcanoes in England…but they haven’t erupted for hundreds of millions of years. In the Lake District there are some really big volcanoes that when they erupted, would have been huge explosive eruptions, sending clouds of ash into the air. They were active about 450 million years ago. Near Leicester, there was a volcano which when it erupted 560 million years ago, it covered some weird animals in ash and these are some of the oldest fossils in the world (do a google image search for Charnia).

In places like Cornwall and the Malverns there are rocks called granite which is where magma didn’t ever make it out into a volcano but instead stayed in the Earths crust and froze.

In Scotland, there are volcanoes in Edinburgh and in the Highlands – Ben Nevis and Geln Coe were both huge volcanoes 350 – 420 million years ago. In Wales, Snowdon is a volcano that erupted about 460 million years ago.

The only active volcano that we can kind of call ours is Soufriere Hills on the island of Montserrat in the Carribean, which is a British Overseas Territory.