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Viaduct Quarry

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Area of Search
  
Somerset

Interest
  
Geological

Grid reference
  
ST621443

Notification
  
1984

Viaduct Quarry

Area
  
0.3 hectares (0.0030 km; 0.0012 sq mi)

Viaduct Quarry (grid reference ST621443) is a 0.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Shepton Mallet on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, notified in 1984.

This disused quarry is a Geological Conservation Review site identified as the best exposed and thickest section in the Downside Stone, a localised limestone development which accumulated adjacent to the Lower Jurassic Mendip Island.

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Viaduct Quarry Wikipedia