Maesbury Railway Cutting
Railway cutting in Somerset, England
51°13′31″N 2°33′56″W / 51.22532°N 2.56560°W / 51.22532; -2.56560
Maesbury Railway Cutting (grid reference ST606475) is a 2 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest between East Horrington and Gurney Slade in Somerset, notified in 1995.
It was part of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.
This is a Geological Conservation Review site because it exposes approximately 135 metres of strata representing the middle and upper Lower Limestone Shales and the basal Black Rock Limestone. Both formations are of early Carboniferous (Courceyan) age.
It lies close to the Iron Age hill fort Maesbury Castle.
Sources
- English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 10 August 2006)
External links
- English Nature website (SSSI information)
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Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
- Ben Knowle
- Blue Anchor to Lilstock Coast
- Brean Down
- Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet Basins
- Bruton Railway Cutting
- Cheddar Complex
- Cloford Quarry
- Cook's Wood Quarry
- Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill
- Doulting Railway Cutting
- Emborough Quarries
- Glenthorne
- Godminster Lane Quarry and Railway Cutting
- Greylake
- Ham Hill
- Hobbs Quarry
- Holwell Quarries
- Hurcott Farm
- Hurcott Lane Cutting
- Lamb Leer
- Langport Railway Cutting
- Laycock Railway Cutting
- Leighton Road Cutting
- Low Ham
- Maes Down
- Maesbury Railway Cutting
- Miller's Hill, Milborne Wick
- Moon's Hill Quarry
- Priddy Caves
- Priddy Pools
- Rodney Stoke SSSI
- Sandpit Hole and Bishop's Lot
- Seavington St Mary
- Shepton Montague Railway Cutting
- Snowdon Hill Quarry
- St. Dunstan's Well Catchment
- Thrupe Lane Swallet
- Vallis Vale
- Viaduct Quarry
- Windsor Hill Quarry
- Wookey Hole
- Wookey Station
- Wurt Pit and Devil's Punchbowl
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- Wiltshire
