Old Town Railway Cutting, Swindon

Old Town Railway Cutting (grid reference SU153832) is a 1.78 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Swindon, Wiltshire, notified in 1975. It is near the site of the former Swindon Town railway station.

The site is notable for an unusual exposure of the Kimmeridge Clay formation.

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Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire

Bratton Downs • Charnage Down Chalk Pit • Chilmark Quarries • Corsham Railway Cutting • Dead Maid Quarry • Dinton Quarry • Dinton Railway Cutting • Fyfield Down • Great Quarry, Swindon • Gripwood Quarry • Kellaways - West Tytherton, River Avon • Lady Down Quarry • The New Forest • Okus Quarry • Old Town Railway Cutting, Swindon • Piggledene • Seend Cleeve Quarry • Seend Ironstone Quarry and Road Cutting • Stanton St. Quintin Quarry & Motorway Cutting • Steeple Ashton • Stert Brook Exposure • Teffont Evias Quarry / Lane Cutting • Upper Chicksgrove Quarry • West Harnham Chalk Pit • Westbury Ironstone Quarry • Wootton Bassett Mud Spring

Neighbouring areas: Avon • Berkshire • Dorset • Gloucestershire • Hampshire • Oxfordshire • Somerset