Dulcote Quarry
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Dulcote Quarry, grid reference ST565445 is a limestone quarry at Dulcote, near Wells on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.
The Foster Yeoman Company was founded at Dulcote, in 1923 and the quarry now measures around 600 m from West to East and around 350 m from North to South. It now has an output of approximately 0.25M tonnes per year of Carboniferous Limestone, for general purpose construction aggregates. A Geodiversity audit of the site was carried out in 2004.[1]
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- ^ Dulcote Quarry, Dulcote, Nr Wells. Geodiversity Audit of Active Aggregate Quarries: Quarries in Somerset. Retrieved on 2007-02-14.
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