Kellaways – West Tytherton, River Avon SSSI, Wiltshire

Kellaways - West Tytherton, River Avon SSSI (grid reference ST945750) is a 4.1 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1998.

Located 3 miles (4.8 km) north east of Chippenham, this SSSI is of geological interest as the banks of the River Avon expose Callovian highly-fossiliferous sandstone which contains well-preserved bivalves, gastropods, brachiopods, belemnites and ammonites.^[1]

References

↑ "Kellaways – West Tytherton, River Avon SSSI citation sheet" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 24 November 2010.

External links

English Nature website (SSSI information)

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 and 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

Coordinates: 51°28′26″N 2°04′50″W / 51.47393°N 2.08058°W / 51.47393; -2.08058

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