- Doulting Railway Cutting
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Doulting Railway Cutting Site of Special Scientific Interest 
Shown within SomersetArea of Search Somerset Grid reference ST648424 Coordinates 51°10′47″N 2°30′18″W / 51.17974°N 2.50496°WCoordinates: 51°10′47″N 2°30′18″W / 51.17974°N 2.50496°W Interest Geological Area 2.8 hectares (0.028 km2; 0.011 sq mi) Notification 1971 Natural England website Doulting Railway Cutting (grid reference ST648424) is a 2.8 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, notified in 1971.
The cutting was made in the 1850s for the East Somerset Railway which still runs steam trains through the cutting today.
It shows rocks of the Middle Jurassic period including both the Inferior Oolite/Great Oolite Junction and the Bajocian-Bathonian stage boundary.
Sources
- English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 7 August 2006)
External links
- English Nature website (SSSI information)
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
Categories:- United Kingdom Site of Special Scientific Interest stubs
- Somerset geography stubs
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1971
- Railway cuttings in the United Kingdom
- Rail transport in Somerset
- Geology of Somerset
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