North Road Quarry, Bath

North Road Quarry, Bath
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location within Somerset
Area of Search	Avon
Grid reference	ST767646
Coordinates	51°22′48″N 2°20′10″W / 51.37997°N 2.33617°W / 51.37997; -2.33617Coordinates: 51°22′48″N 2°20′10″W / 51.37997°N 2.33617°W / 51.37997; -2.33617
Interest	Geological
Area	0.3 hectares (0.0030 km²; 0.0012 sq mi)
Notification	1990 (1990)
Natural England website

North Road Quarry, Bath (grid reference ST767646) is a 0.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest close to Sham Castle in the city of Bath, Somerset, notified in 1990.

It is a Geological Conservation Review site because it contains an exposure of Oolite, which shows a very clear example of dip-and-fault structure. In addition it reveals Pleistocene 'plateaugravels' made up of flint, chert, limestone, coal, shales, sandstone and conglomerate, sometimes in a silty matrix, sometimes clast supported.^[1]

References

Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Avon

Aust Cliff Avon Gorge Banwell Caves Banwell Ochre Caves Barnhill Quarry Barns Batch Spinney Bickley Wood Bleadon Hill Bourne Bowlditch Quarry Brinkmarsh Quarry Brown's Folly Buckover Road Cutting Burrington Combe Cattybrook Brickpit Clevedon Shore Compton Martin Ochre Mine Court Hill Cullimore's Quarry Damery Road Section Dundry Main Road South Quarry Gordano Valley Ham Green Hampton Rocks Cutting Hartcliff Rocks Quarry Hawkesbury Quarry Hinton Charterhouse Pit Hinton Hill, Wellow Holly Lane Huish Colliery Quarry Kenn Church, Kenn Pier & Yew Tree Farm Kilmersdon Road Quarry Lower Woods Lulsgate Quarry Middle Hope Newton St Loe Nightingale Valley North Road Quarry, Bath Portishead Pier to Black Nore Quarry Steps, Durdham Down Severn Estuary Slickstones Quarry, Cromhall Spring Cove Cliffs Stidham Farm Tytherington Quarry Weston-in-Gordano Winterbourne Railway Cutting Writhlington

Neighbouring areas Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire

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