Moon's Hill Quarry

Moon's Hill Quarry
Moon's Hill Quarry
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Moon's Hill Quarry is located in Somerset
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Shown within Somerset
Area of Search Somerset
Grid reference ST665460
Coordinates 51°12′44″N 2°28′51″W / 51.21221°N 2.48097°W / 51.21221; -2.48097Coordinates: 51°12′44″N 2°28′51″W / 51.21221°N 2.48097°W / 51.21221; -2.48097
Interest Geological
Area 3.42 hectares (0.0342 km2; 0.0132 sq mi)
Notification 1996 (1996)
Natural England website

Moon's Hill Quarry (grid reference ST665460) is a 3.42 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Stoke St Michael in Somerset, notified in 1996[1] and is a Geological Conservation Review site.

The quarry covers some 240 acres (0.97 km2), and is operated by John Wainwright & Co Ltd which purchased it in 1897 and has operated it continuously ever since. The quarry produces Basalt Aggregate known as hardstone and is used for the surface course, the top layer of the road surface.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "English Nature citation sheet for Moon's Hill Quarry". http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1000172.pdf. Retrieved 2006-08-09. 
  2. ^ "Wainwright Basalt Aggregate Quarry". http://www.wainwright.co.uk/geology.php. Retrieved 2010-10-07. 

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Summary
SSSIs

Ben Knowle · Blue Anchor to Lilstock Coast · Brean Down · Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet Basins · Bruton Railway Cutting · Cheddar Complex · Cloford Quarry · Cook's Wood Quarry · Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill · Doulting Railway Cutting · Emborough Quarries · Glenthorne · Godminster Lane Quarry and Railway Cutting · Greylake · Ham Hill · Hobbs Quarry · Holwell Quarries · Hurcott Farm · Hurcott Lane Cutting · Lamb Leer · Langport Railway Cutting · Laycock Railway Cutting · Leighton Road Cutting · Low Ham · Maes Down · Maesbury Railway Cutting · Miller's Hill, Milborne Wick · Moon's Hill Quarry · Priddy Caves · Priddy Pools · Rodney Stoke SSSI · Sandpit Hole and Bishop's Lot · Seavington St Mary · Shepton Montague Railway Cutting · Snowdon Hill Quarry · St. Dunstan's Well Catchment · Thrupe Lane Swallet · Vallis Vale · Viaduct Quarry · Windsor Hill Quarry · Wookey Hole · Wookey Station · Wurt Pit and Devil's Punchbowl
Neighbouring areas

Avon · Devon · Dorset · Wiltshire
v · d · eMendip Hills
Settlements:
Rivers and lakes:
River Axe · Cheddar Yeo · River Chew · River Yeo · Lox Yeo River · Blagdon Lake · Cheddar Reservoir · Chew Valley Lake · Litton Reservoirs
Hills
Caves and gorges:
Attborough Swallet · Aveline's Hole · Axbridge Ochre Mine · Banwell Caves · Banwell Ochre Caves · Burrington Combe · Charterhouse Cave · Cheddar Gorge · Compton Martin Ochre Mine · Cox's Cave · Eastwater Cavern · Ebbor Gorge · Fairy Cave Quarry · GB Cave · Goatchurch Cavern · Gough's Cave · Hunter's Hole · Lamb Leer · Longwood Swallet · Pierre's Pot  · Priddy Caves · Rod's Pot · Shatter Cave · Shute Shelve Cavern · Sidcot Swallet · St Cuthbert's Swallet · St. Dunstan's Well Catchment · Stoke Lane Slocker · Swildon's Hole · Thrupe Lane Swallet · Tyning's Barrow Swallet · Upper Flood Swallet · W/L Cave · Wookey Hole Caves
Quarries:
SSSIs:
Asham Wood · Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill · Banwell Caves · Banwell Ochre Caves · Barns Batch Spinney · Blagdon Lake · Bleadon Hill · Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet Basins · Burledge Hill · Burrington Combe · Chancellor's Farm · Cheddar Complex · Cheddar Reservoir · Cheddar Wood · Chew Valley Lake · Cloford Quarry · Compton Martin Ochre Mine · Cook's Wood Quarry · Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill · Dolebury Warren · Draycott Sleights · Ebbor Gorge · Emborough Quarries · Harptree Combe · Hobbs Quarry · Holwell Quarries · Kingdown and Middledown · Lamb Leer · Priddy Caves · Priddy Pools · Perch · Rodney Stoke · St. Dunstan's Well Catchment · Sandpit Hole and Bishop's Lot · Shiplate Slait · Viaduct Quarry · Windsor Hill Quarry · Wurt Pit and Devil's Punchbowl
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