Maesbury Railway Cutting

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Maesbury Railway Cutting
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Shown within Somerset
Area of Search	Somerset
Grid reference	ST606475
Coordinates	51°13′31″N 2°33′56″W / 51.22532°N 2.56560°W / 51.22532; -2.56560Coordinates: 51°13′31″N 2°33′56″W / 51.22532°N 2.56560°W / 51.22532; -2.56560
Interest	Geological
Area	2 hectares (0.020 km²; 0.0077 sq mi)
Notification	1995 (1995)
Natural England website

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)

v t e Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset

Summary	Summarised data for all sites (biological and geological)

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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