Westbury Ironstone Quarry

Westbury Ironstone Quarry (grid reference ST853508) is a 5,600 square metre geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England, notified in 1965. It was once an important source of Upper Oxfordian Westbury Iron Ore.

Source

English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 25 July 2006)

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°15′27″N 2°12′45″W / 51.2576°N 2.2124°W / 51.2576; -2.2124

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