Maes Down

Maes Down
Maes Down
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Maes Down is located in Somerset
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Shown within Somerset
Area of Search Somerset
Grid reference ST647406
Coordinates 51°09′49″N 2°30′22″W / 51.16355°N 2.50621°W / 51.16355; -2.50621Coordinates: 51°09′49″N 2°30′22″W / 51.16355°N 2.50621°W / 51.16355; -2.50621
Interest Geological
Area 0.2 hectares (0.0020 km2; 0.00077 sq mi)
Notification 1985 (1985)
Natural England website

Maes Down (grid reference ST647406) is a 0.2 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Shepton Mallet and Stoney Stratton in Somerset, notified in 1985. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

The rocks seen at Maes Down were laid down about 190 million years ago, during the Upper Pliensbachian and Lower Toarcian Stages of the Jurassic Period of geological times, when this part of Britain lay beneath the sea.

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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

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