Doulting Railway Cutting

Doulting Railway Cutting
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Shown within Somerset
Area of Search Somerset
Grid reference ST648424
Coordinates 51°10′47″N 2°30′18″W / 51.17974°N 2.50496°W / 51.17974; -2.50496Coordinates: 51°10′47″N 2°30′18″W / 51.17974°N 2.50496°W / 51.17974; -2.50496
Interest Geological
Area 2.8 hectares (0.028 km2; 0.011 sq mi)
Notification 1971 (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.

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