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Hobbs Quarry SSSI, Shepton Mallet

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Grid reference
  
ST622446

Area
  
5,000 m²

Notification
  
1984

Interest
  
Geological

Area of search
  
Somerset

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Hobbs Quarry (grid reference ST622446) is a 0.5 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Shepton Mallet on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, notified in 1984.

This disused quarry, which now forms the back of a builders merchants yard, is a Geological Conservation Review Site which demonstrates early Jurassic transgression, with steeply-dipping Carboniferous Limestone being overlain by flatter-lying massive limestones (of early Jurassic age) known as the Downside Stone.

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Hobbs Quarry SSSI, Shepton Mallet Wikipedia