Dundry Hill

Dundry Hill

The Trig point at the top of Dundry Hill with the top of the tower of Church of St Michael, Dundry in the background
Highest point
Elevation 223 m (732 ft)
Prominence 170 m (560 ft)
Parent peak Beacon Batch
Listing Marilyn
Geography
Location North part of the Mendip Hills, England
OS grid ST553667
Topo map OS Landrangers 172, 182

Dundry Hill is immediately south of Bristol, England: it includes farmland, a small number of houses and a church. It stretches east-west for some two miles.

The village of Dundry, with its prominent church, is near the summit. At the eastern end is Maes Knoll, near Norton Malreward, an Iron Age hillfort and the start of Wansdyke.[1] To the South lies the Chew Valley.

On the western side of the hill is a spring which becomes the Land Yeo.

Dundry Main Road South Quarry is a 0.7 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of East Dundry, because of the number of fossils in the inferior oolite. The Main Road Quarry exposes a fine section in the Middle and Upper Inferior Oolite,[2] with the rocks lying stratigraphically below them visible at Barns Batch Spinney. The former characterised by a typically southern English-Normandy fauna, including the rich ammonite occurrences of the "Brown iron-shot", and the latter by contrasting faunas of Cotswold aspect. This contrast is direct evidence for movements of the Mendip Axis in Middle Jurassic times, making this an outstanding site for its bearing on studies of palaeogeography.[3]

References

  1. "Maes Knoll". Wansdyke Project. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
  2. Haslett, Simon K. (2010). Somerset Landscapes: Geology and landforms. Usk: Blackbarn Books. pp. 92–96. ISBN 9781456416317.
  3. "Dundry Main Road South Quarry" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 2006-07-10.

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Coordinates: 51°23′51″N 2°38′38″W / 51.39756°N 2.64391°W / 51.39756; -2.64391

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