Maesbury Railway Cutting

Maesbury Railway Cutting
Maesbury Railway Cutting
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Maesbury Railway Cutting is located in Somerset
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Shown within Somerset
Area of Search Somerset
Grid reference ST606475
Coordinates 51°13′31″N 2°33′56″W / 51.22532°N 2.56560°W / 51.22532; -2.56560Coordinates: 51°13′31″N 2°33′56″W / 51.22532°N 2.56560°W / 51.22532; -2.56560
Interest Geological
Area 2 hectares (0.020 km2; 0.0077 sq mi)
Notification 1995 (1995)
Natural England website

Maesbury Railway Cutting (grid reference ST606475) is a 2 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest between East Horrington and Gurney Slade in Somerset, notified in 1995.

It was part of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.

This is a Geological Conservation Review site because it exposes approximately 135 metres of strata representing the middle and upper Lower Limestone Shales and the basal Black Rock Limestone. Both formations are of early Carboniferous (Courceyan) age.

It lies close to the Iron Age hill fort Maesbury Castle.

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