Somerset Geology Data

All sites Information Source: Hugh Prudden

All Sites contact email:

All Sites: Somerset RIGS (with the exception of Golsoncott Quarry)

Useful sources:

Somerset Geology-a Good Rock Guide: some fifty accessible sites of general geological interest e.g. details of Holwell viewing platform.

Tedbury Camp This geological gem in the Mendip Hills has been compiled on behalf of the Earth Science Teachers' Association (ESTA). It is aimed at A Level students, undergraduates and researchers, and includes lots of illustrative material and a detailed map of the quarry. It forms part of the ESTA website and can be found on Earth Science On-Site

'The geology and landscape of Taunton Deane'. 2001. H. C. Prudden. Taunton Deane Borough Council.

'Ham Hill: the rocks and quarries'. H. C. Prudden. 1995. South Somerset District Council.

'Exmoor Geology'. R. A Edwards. 1999. Exmoor Books. (Out of print.)

'New Sites for Old'. Edited by Duff. K.L. et al. 1986. Nature Conservancy

'A walkers’ guide to the geology and landscape of western Mendip'. Book and map at 1:25 000 scale. Andy Farrant. 2008. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. ISBN 978 085272576 4. There is a companion volume on the eastern Mendips.

Site Name

Gortnell Common Landslip

Lipe Hill Holloway

Staple Hill Backscar

Staple Fitzpaine Sarsens

Overton Sandpit

Moredon House Cutting

Hatch Beauchamp Cutting

Otterford Quarry

Hestercombe Dykes

Coombe Quarries

Denbury Quarry

Ford Quarry

Ridge Hill Quarry

Hyden Quarry

Langley Hollow

Billy Lane exposure

Oakhamoton Quarry

Buckland Wood

Bindon Farm Quarry

Holywell Bridge Quarry

Pooles Kiln Quarry

Knights Farm Qarry

Brick Barn Quarry

Gadds Bottom Quarry

Yarford Quarry

Tetton Park Quarry

Sandy Lane, Langley

Waterrow Quarry

Oakhampton Quarry

Clatworthy Reservoir

Oakhampton Viewpoint

Northway Quarry

Nynehead Quarry

Hoccombe Channels

Norton Fitzwarren Church

Cushuish Lane Holloway

Hestercombe Car Park

Taunton Town Trail

Keepers Combe Quarry

Pepperhill Quarry

King's Cliff Quarry

Broomfield Quarrylands

North Newton Holloway

Adscombe Trackway

Rams Combe

Parsons Lane Quarry

Plainsfield Quarry

Holloway Rocks

GB Cave

Cross Quarry

Churchill Farm Holloways

Cannington Park Quarry

Merridge Quarry

No Place Quarry

Holwell Cave

Manor Farm Quarry

Quantock Quarry

Wayford Woods

Knapps Lane Quarry

Hurcott Road Cutting

Townsend Quarry

Manor House Quarry

Limeworks Quarry

Lyewater Rock Face

Ham Hill Group

Warren Hill Cutting

Bayford Cutting

Gilcombe Quarry

Hadspen Quarry

Pen Selwood Landslip

River Brue Bed & Cliff

Quarry Covert

Quarry Plantation

Haselbury Mill Face

Keeper's Quarry Plantation

Somerton Lodge Corner

Cary Bridge Cutting

Sutton Railway Cutting

Birdspit Quarry

Gilling Down

Dundon Hill

Station Quarry

Tout Quarry

Hurcot Quarry

Mill Lane Exposure

Lake View Quarry

Coombe Quarry

Sutton's Quarry

King's Hill Quarry

Batemoor Quarry

Camel Hill

Coker Hill Cutting

Dorchester Road Cutting

East Chinnock Hollow

Montacute Holloway

Windmill Lane Exposure

Preston Stream Section

Sparkford Hill Copse

Sutton Bingham Reservoir

Salt Hole Spring

West Chinnock Hill Cutting

River Axe Flood Plain

Corton Ridge & Beacon

Yeovil Town

West Chinnock Hill

Ilminster Old Walls

Knole

Cow Castle

Wheal Eliza Mine

Birch Cleve Quarry

Cornham Ford Group

Roman Lode Gully

Cornham Ford Mining Group

Drybridge Quarry

Pinkery Head Section

Shortcombe Rocks

Upper Exe-Warren Gp

Ashton Cleave Scree

Pinkworthy Pond Exposure

Oare Water Channel

Pinkworthy Valley Soils

Newland Quarry

Pinns Quarry

Pennycombe Gape Knolls

Upper Willingford Gully

L Willingford Bridge Quarry

Landacre Bridge

Tarr Steps & Quarry

The Punch Bowl

Hope Quarry

Hurlstone Point

Weir Water Reserve

Dunkery Gate

Bossington Beach

Culbone Coast Cliffs

Porlock Weir

Stoke Bridge Golyes

Yellowstone Cliff

Barlynch Quarry

Marsh Bridge River Channel

Perry Road New Cutting

Allencroft Quarry West

Luckwell Bridge Quarry

Kingsbridge New Mill Quarry

Bridgetown Cutting

Wheddon Cross Car Park

Edbrook Road Cutting

Cottage Quarry

Stowey Farm Quarry

Combeshead Quarry

Culver Cliffs

Conygar Tower Quarry

Gillhams Quarry

Greenaleigh Point

Oaktrow Road Quarries

Luccombe Boulder Bed

Huntscott Garage Quarry

Shepton Mallet Cutting

Beard Hill Quarry

Town Lane Quarry

Doulting Quarry

Abbey Quarry

Whitehole Quarry

Barnclose Quarry

Maesbury Cutting

Minster Stone Quarry

Sunny Hill Quarry

Hector Wood Quarry

Chilcompton Railway Cutt

Chilcompton Old Down Cutt

Emborough Dam

Tedbury Camp Quarry

Shute Shelve Tunnel

Rowberrow Swallets

Rowberrow Cavern

Wearyall Hill

Hazel Corner

Leigh Barton Quarry

Golsoncott Quarry

Treborough Woods

Draycott Sleights

Stump Cross Railway Cutt

Croscombe Road Cutting

Maesbury Quarry

Tor Woods

Pen Hill Quarry

Milton Lane

Tumulous Quarry

Wells Green Swallet

Bishop's Lot

Wookey Station

Stoberry Park Quarry

Beacon Hill Wood

Deer Leap

Wilmott's Quarry

Waterlip Quarry East

Stones Hill Farm Quarry

Holwell Car Park Quarry

Carslake Bridge Cutting

Triscombe Quarry

Bicknoller Quarry

Kents Hill Quarry

Bowdens Quarry

Hulverton Hill Quarry

Bridge End Quarry

Hollow Street Cutting

Woolston Quarry

Halsway Quarry

Bicknoller Combe Quarry

W Quantocks Head Quarries

Holford Glen

Holford Combe Quarry

Willoughby Cleeve Quarry

Godney Moor Raised-Mire

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Local Authority

Taunton Deane B C

Sedgemoor District

South Somerset D C

Exmoor National Park

Mendip

W Somerset

Mendip DC

Parish

West Buckland

Pitminster

Otterford

Staple Fitzpaine

West Monkton

North Curry

Hatch Beauchamp

Otterford

Kingston St.Mary

West Monkton

Ash Priors

Upton

Wiveliscombe

West Buckland

Langton Budville

Ash Priors

Milverton

Lyd. St.Lawrence

Cottelstone

Kingston St.Mary

Wiveliscombe

Bathealton

Clatworthy

Wiveliscombe

Ash Priors

Nynehead

Fitzhead

Norton Fitzwarren

Kingston St.Mary

Taunton

Spaxton

North Petherton

Broomfield

North Petherton

Over Stowey

Spaxton

Shipham

Cheddar

Compton Bishop

North Petherton

Cannington

Broomfield

Wayford

Chaffcombe

Seavington St.Mary

Whitelackington

North Perrott

Little Sutton

Crewkerne

Montacute

West Crewkerne

Stoke Trister

Bruton

Pitcombe

Pen Selwood

Bruton

Compton Paucefoot

Maperton

Haselbury Pluckett

Hinton St.George

Somerton

Long Sutton

Somerton

Compton Dundon

Charlton Mackrell

Charlton Mackerell

Somerton

Kingsdon

Keinton Mandeville

Montacute

Queen Camel

East Chinnock

Yeovil

East Chinnock

Montacute

Yeovil

Sparkford

Closworth

East Chinnock

West Chinnock

Wingham

Corton Denham

Yeovil

West Chinnock

Ilminster

Long Sutton

Exmoor

Oare

Exmoor

Oare

Exmoor

Cutcombe

Withypool

Winsford

Selworthy

Porlock

Cutcombe

Porlock

Luccombe

Oare

Dulverton

Exton

Timberscombe

Cutcombe

Luxborough

Exton

Winsford

Timberscombe

Minehead

Wootton Courtney

Minehead Without

Cutcombe

Wootton Courtney

Shepton Mallet

Pilton

Shepton Mallet

Doulting

Downhead

Binegar

Cranmore

Stoke St Michael

Chilcompton

Emborough

Elm

Winscombe

Shipham

Glastonbury

Hunt-Blewit

Treborough

Old Cleeve

Treborough

Rodney Stoke

Croscombe

St.Cuthbert Out

Wells

St.Cuthbert Out

Wells

Chewton Mendip

Wells

Shepton Mallet

Wells

Cranmore

Binegar

Nunney

Stogumber

Crowcombe

Bicknoller

Exford

Skilgate

Minehead

Sampford Brett

Crowcombe

Bicknoller

W Quantockhead

Holford

Godney

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Jurassic

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Jurassic

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Jurassic

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Quaternary

Devonian

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Quaternary

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Quaternary

Devonian

Quaternary

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Devonian

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Devonian

Permian/Triassic

Jurassic

Carboniferous

Jurassic

Silurian

Carboniferous

Permian/Triassic

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Carboniferous

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Carboniferous

Quaternary

Carboniferous

Devonian

Carboniferous

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Carboniferous

Permian/Triassic

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Carboniferous

Devonian

Carboniferous

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Permian/Triassic

Devonian

Carboniferous

Devonian

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Devonian

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Rock Group

Greensand

North Curry Sandstone

Bagshot?

Bagshot? Plateau deposits

Otter Sandstone

North Curry Sandstone

Blue Lias

Head/Greensand

Hestercombe diorite

Morte Slate

Bunter Sandstone pebble beds

Vexford Breccias

Wiveliscombe Sandstone

Morte Slate

Greensand

Bunter Sandstone pebble beds

Bunter Sst pebble beds & Otter Sst

Bunter Sandstone pebble beds

Vexford Breccias

Otter Sandstone

Morte Slate

Otter Sandstone

Morte Slate

Vexford Breccias

Pilton Slates

Morte Slate

Morte Slates landforms

Viewpoint

Bunter Sandstone pebble beds

Otter Sandstone

alluvium

North Curry Sst as building stones

Morte Slate - folds

diorite intrusion

Building stones

Volcanic Tuff

Folds

Morte Slate

Otter Sandstone Calcrete

Ilfracombe Beds

Hangman Sandstone

Roadwater Limestone

Dolomitic Conglomerate

Karst

Clifton Down Limestone

Otter Sandstone

Carboniferous Limestone

Roadwater Limestone

Holwell Limestone

Holwell Cave

Roadwater Limestone

Aisholt Limestone

Greensand

Upper Greensand

Beacon Limestone

Marlstone Rock Beds

Ham Hill Stone & Inferior Oolite

Inferior Oolite

Ham Hill Stone

Upper Greensand

Cornbrash

Forest Marble

Inferior Oolite

Landslip

Fullers Earth Rock

Inferior Oolite

White/Blue Lias

Blue Lias

Mercia Mudstones land forms

Blue Lias

Westbury Beds

Blue Lias

Ham Hill Stone

Langport Beds

Bridport Sandstone

Marlstone

Beacon Limestone

Blue Lias

Forest Marble

hydrological interest

Ham Hill Stone

fluvial features

landforms

building stones

landforms

building stones

landforms

Landforms, Kentisbury Slate

former mine workings

Kentisbury Slates

Morte Slates

landforms

minerals

Morte Slate

Kentisbury Slates

Hangman Sandstone

faces - Hangman Sandstone

Kentisbury Slates

Hangman Sandstone

Soils (and head)

Ilfracombe Beds

Roadwater Limestone

Morte Slates landforms

Upper Willingford Gully

Pickwell Down Beds

Morte Slates

Pickwell Down Beds

Brendon Hill Beds

Hangman Sandstone

landforms

Manley Beds

beach

Hangman Sandstone Group

Head & beach

landforms

Hangman Sandstone

Pickwell Down Beds

Pilton Beds

Roadwater Limestone

Avill Group

Pickwell Down Beds

Cutcombe Slates

Pickwell Down Beds

Brendon Hill Beds

Roadwater Limestone

Hangman Sandstone

Otter Sandstone

Hangman Sandstone

Oaktrow Sandstone

Otter Sandstone

Limestones, Blue Lias & Clays

Blue Lias

Doulting Stone

Carboniferous Limestone

Clifton Down Limestone

Lower Limestone Shale

Doulting Stone

Volcanics

Quartzitic stone

Westbury Beds

Rhaetian & Lower Jurassic

Lower Coal Series

Inferior Oolite over Carb Lst

Black Rock Limestone

Swallets

cavern

shallow slides

Burrington Oolite

Sticklepath Slate

Leighland Slates & Roadwater Lst

Leighland Beds

Burrington Oolite

Dolomitic Conglom/Black Rock Lst

Dolomitic Conglomerate

Black Rock Limestone

Dolomitic Conglomerate

Old Red Sandstone

Keuper Marl - Lower Lias

Black Rock Limestone

Blue Lias

Black Rock Limestone

gravel

Clifton Down Limestone

Portishead Beds

Millstone Grit

Black Rock Limestone

Quartzitic St. & Dolomitic Conglom.

Fissure Fillings

Vexford Breccias

Hangman Sandstone

Hangman Sst Triscombe Beds

Bampton Limestone

Pickwell Down Beds

PickwellL Down Beds

Bunter Sand & Pebble Beds

Bunter Sandstone and Pebble Beds

Trentishoe Grits

Little Hangman Sandstone

Tuff over Hangman Sandstone

Hangman Sst Triscombe Beds

Tuff over Hangman Sandstone

Hangman Sandstone

Peat

Geological Highlights

LANDSLIP

N CURRY SANDSTONE

BACKSCAR WITH LARGE TERTIARY COBBLES

SARSENS

SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS TECTONICS

SEDIMENTS

IGNEOUS

SEDIMENTS TECTONICS

SEDIMENTS

HEAD GREENSAND

SEDIMENTS

TECTONICS SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS TECTONICS

LANDSCAPE

SEDIMENTS

FLUVIAL FEATURES

N CURRY SANDSTONE

SEDIMENTS NEAR QUANTOCK FAULT

HEAD TECTONICS

COLLECTION OF LOCAL BUILDING STONES

IGNEOUS

TECTONIC

SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS TECTONICS

SEDIMENTS

TECTONICS SEDIMENTS BAYTES

SEDIMENTS

CAVE SYSTEM

SEDIMENTS

LANDSLIPS GREENSAND

SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS FOSSILS

SEDIMENTS

HAM HILL STONE OUTLIER

SEDIMENTS FOSSILS

SEDIMENTS TECTONICS

SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS AND SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE

TYPICAL 'HADSPEN STONE' ACTIVE QUARRY

ACTIVE LANDSLIP

SEDIMENTS

THICK UPPER INFERIOR OOLITE

SHEARING FAULTING NEAR MERE FAULT

SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS TECTONICS

LONG CUTTING EXPOSURE SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS

Active slumpimg, Gully development, Large Blue conserve

SWT RESERVE

CP ROMAN TILES AND TESSERAE

SOURCE OF ALGAL BEDDING PLANES

SEDIMENTS

STRIKE SLIP TECTONICS

SEDIMENTS JOINTS

SEDIMENTS

GOOD BLUE LIAS EXPOSURE

SEDIMENTS FOSSILS

WHITE LIAS

SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES

PLANAR BEDDED SANDS

SEDIMENTS FOSSILS

EROSION HOLLOWAY SEDIMENTS

THIN MARLSTONE

STREAM SECTION

WHITE BLUE LIAS EXPOSURES

SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES

HYDROLOGICAL INTEREST

SEDIMENTS

FLUVIAL FEATURES

DOUBLE SCARP AND DIP

BEACON LIMESTONE CONDENSED FACIES

LANDFORMS

MARLSTONE FOSSILS

LANDFORMS TERACETTES

TECTONIC LANDFORMS

HERITAGE SITE MINING SEDIMENTS

BY NATURE TRAIL SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS TECTONIC QUARTZ VEINS

SOILS PERIGLACIAL GULLY

PEAT SEDIMENTS

GOOD EXPOSURE OF HEAD

LANDSFORMS (KNOLLS) SLATES

LANDFORMS KNOLLS 1952 FLOOD EVIDENCE Soils

Scree Tectonic Shattering Classic LF Periglacial

Seds. Slates LF=Terracettes Stream Erosion Soils Tect.

TECTONIC SEDIMENTS

HEAD SLATES PEAT EDGE OF RAISED BOG SOILS

VADOSE PIPES SEDIMENTS

KNOLLS TECTONICS

ACTIVE GULLY

SEDIMENTIARY STRUCTURES TECTONICS

SEDS. & SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES TECTONICS

CONTROVERSIAL GLACIAL CIRQUE??

SEDIMENTS TECTONICS

SEDIMENTS MINERAL VEINS TECTONICS

KNOLLS GOYLES TECTONICS

SEDIMENTS GOYLE HEAD SOIL PROFILES FLUVIAL

Subm. Forest, Shingle Beach Fluv. Nat. Retreat Salt Marsh

TRENTISOE FORMATION SEDIMENTS TECTONICS

Head.. Relict Slopes Salt Marsh. Shingle Beach

SPLENDID GOYLES IN HEAD

SEDIMENTS TECTONICS

SUPERB SEDIMENTS TECTONICS

SEDIMENTS QUARTZ VEINING

FOSSILS FENESTELLA SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS

FOSSILS SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS QUARTZ LENSES TECTONICS

SEDIMENTS QUARTZ VEINING TECTONICS

TECTONICS

SEDIMENTS SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES FOSSILS

SEDIMENTS, BARYTES, TECTONICS, SCREE FORM

CLIFFS SEDS. & SED STRUCTURES TECTONICS

HUGE FACE CLEAR SEDIMENTS

FAULT CALCITE VEINS BRECCIAS

Seds. Sed. Structs Tect. Arc Shingle Ridge Hd Palslope NT

TECTONIC SEDIMENTS FOSSILS

FANTASTIC BOULDER BED

CALCITE VEINING SEDIMENTS CALC BRECCIAS

SEDIMENTS

HOTWELLS GROUP SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS

CLIFTON DOWN LIMESTONE

INFERIOR OOLITE LIMESTONES

IGNEOUS

QUARTZITIC SANDSTONE GROUP SEDIMENTS

TECTONICS SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS

UNCONFORMITY TECTONICS SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS

SWALLETS

CAVE SYSTEM

ROLLOVERS SLIDES

SEDIMENTS FAULT VERTICAL CALCITE

SEDIMENTS TECTONICS

SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS CAVES

SEDIMENTS UNCONFORMITY

SEDIMENTS

MINERALISATION FAULT FISSURES

Dolomitic Conglomerates on Carboniferous Limestone

SEDIMENTS

WESTBURY AND COTHAM BEDS

SEDIMENTS

SWALLETT IN BLUE LIAS

LARGE DOLINE

DEVENSIAN GRAVEL

SEDIMENTS

FISSURES FOSSILS

TECTONICS FOSSILS

NEPTUNIAN DYKE

MOORE'S FISSURES

SEDIMENTS

VOLCANICS TECTONICS SEDS. NEEDS RESEARCH

SEDIMENTS AND SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES

RADIOLARIANS SEDIMENTS TECTONICS

CONODONTS GRADED TUFF

RADIOLARIANS SEDIMENTS LANDFORM

TECTONICS SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENTS TECTONICS

SEDIMENTS

SEDIMENT

SEDIMENTS

Relict Raised Mire-Palaeo Record 1600 Years

Condition

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Poor declining

Good steady

Good declining

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Good declining

Poor declin/lost

Good

Poor declining

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Good declining

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Good steady

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Good declining

Good steady

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Good steady

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Good declining

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Good steady

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