Barns Batch Spinney

Infobox SSSI


name=Barns Batch Spinney
aos=Avon
interest=Geological
gridref=ST557659
area=0.06 hectare
notifydate=1987

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Barns Batch Spinney (gbmapping|ST557659) is a 0.06 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Dundry, North Somerset, notified in 1987.

The English Nature citation says that Barns Batch Spinney is important because of the exposures which it provides of the lower part of the classic Inferior Oolite limestone sequence of the Dundry area. It shows rocks lying stratigraphically below the Middle and Upper Inferior Oolite Limestones seen at Dundry Main Road South Quarry. [cite web | title=Barns Batch Spinney | work=English Nature | url=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1003797.pdf | accessdate=2006-07-10]

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* [http://www.jncc.gov.uk/earthheritage/gcrdb/GCR.asp?GCR=88 Barns Batch Spinney from GCR database]