Wingate Quarry

Wingate Quarry
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Country	England
Region	North East
District	Easington

Location	NZ373375
- coordinates	GB-ENG 54°43′54″N 1°25′17″W / 54.73167°N 1.42139°W / 54.73167; -1.42139Coordinates: GB-ENG 54°43′54″N 1°25′17″W / 54.73167°N 1.42139°W / 54.73167; -1.42139

Area	23.35 ha (57.7 acres)

Notification	1984
Management	Natural England

Area of Search	County Durham
Interest	Biological

Location of Wingate Quarry SSSI, Co Durham
Website: Map of site

Wingate Quarry is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Easington district of east County Durham, England.^[1]^[2] Part of the site is also a Local Nature Reserve^[3]^[4] It is a disused quarry located just south of the village of Wheatley Hill.

Frog Orchid, Coeloglossum viride

The quarry was worked for Magnesian Limestone until the 1930s, when it closed. Since then a large and varied grassland has developed on the site. Magnesian limestone grassland is nationally scarce, with this site accounting for close to 8 percent of the national total. As well as species that are characteristic of this vegetation type, there are also two orchids, fragrant orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea, and frog orchid, Coeloglossum viride, both of which are uncommon in County Durham.^[1]

References

1 2 "Wingate Quarry citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
↑ "Map of Wingate Quarry". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
↑ "Wingate Quarry". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
↑ "Map of Wingate Quarry". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 26 July 2013.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham

Backstone Bank and Baal Hill Woods Baldersdale Woodlands Bishop Middleham Quarry Bollihope, Pikestone, Eggleston and Woodland Fells Botany Hill Bowes Moor Bowlees and Friar House Meadows Brasside Pond Brignall Banks Burnhope Burn Butterby Oxbow Cassop Vale Castle Eden Dene Causey Bank Mires Charity Land Close House Mine Cornriggs Meadows Cotherstone Moor Crag Gill Crime Rigg and Sherburn Hill Quarries Dabble Bank Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine Durham Coast Fairy Holes Cave Far High House Meadows Fishburn Grassland Foster's Hush Frog Wood Bog God's Bridge Grains o' th' Beck Meadows Green Croft and Langley Moor Greenfoot Quarry Hannah's Meadows Hawthorn Dene Hawthorn Quarry Hell Kettles Hesledon Moor East Hesledon Moor West Hexhamshire Moors Hisehope Burn Valley Hulam Fen Hunder Beck Juniper Kilmond Scar Low Redford Meadows Lune Forest Mere Beck Meadows Middle Crossthwaite Middle Side and Stonygill Meadows Middleton Quarry Middridge Quarry Moorhouse and Cross Fell Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor Neasham Fen Newton Ketton Meadow Old Moss Lead Vein Park End Wood Pig Hill Pike Whin Bog Pittington Hill Pow Hill Bog Quarrington Hill Grasslands Railway Stell West Raisby Hill Grassland Raisby Hill Quarry Redcar Field Rigg Farm and Stake Hill Meadows Rogerley Quarry Sherburn Hill Shipley and Great Woods Sleightholme Beck Gorge - The Troughs Slit Woods Stony Cut, Cold Hesledon Teesdale Allotments The Bottoms The Carrs Thrislington Plantation Town Kelloe Bank Trimdon Limestone Quarry Tuthill Quarry Upper Teesdale Waldridge Fell West Newlandside Meadows West Park Meadows West Rigg Open Cutting Westernhope Burn Wood Wingate Quarry Witton-le-Wear Yoden Village Quarry

Neighbouring areas Cleveland Northumberland Tyne and Wear

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