Maesbury Railway Cutting

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Maesbury Railway Cutting
Area of Search Somerset
Grid Reference ST606475
Interest Geological
Area 2 hectare
Notification 1995
Location Map English Nature

Maesbury Railway Cutting (grid reference ST606475) is a 2 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, notified in 1995. This is a Geological Conservation Review site.

The section at Maesbury Railway Cutting 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.

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Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
Summary:
SSSIs:
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
Neighbouring areas
Avon  · Devon  · Dorset  · Wiltshire


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Coordinates: 51.22532° N 2.56560° W