Gripwood Quarry

Gripwood Quarry (grid reference ST822603) is a 2.9 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1951. The quarry is of Oolitic limestone and one single quarry with a wall in the middle creating an upper and a lower quarry, last used for mushroom growing. The walls are whitewashed and features a large wooden crane.

Alias

Jones Hill Quarry *Name used by Wiltshire Council.
Bradford-on-Avon 9 *A name given by Mendip Cave Rescue.
Ruins *Older lower section was known by the name Ruins by the mushroom workers.
ST86SW468 *SMR Number - Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Search.
Woodside Quarry - *Generally referred to as Woodside Quarry but Historical Research shows as Gripwood is the underground and Woodside as the opencast.

Source

English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 22 July 2006)

External links

English Nature website (SSSI information)
MCRA Resource
http://www.darkplaces.co.uk/wiki/GripwoodQuarry

Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire

Bratton Downs Charnage Down Chalk Pit Chilmark Quarries Corsham Railway Cutting Dead Maid Quarry Dinton Quarry Dinton Railway Cutting Fyfield Down Great Quarry, Swindon Gripwood Quarry Kellaways - West Tytherton, River Avon Lady Down Quarry The New Forest Okus Quarry Old Town Railway Cutting, Swindon Piggledene Seend Cleeve Quarry Seend Ironstone Quarry and Road Cutting Stanton St. Quintin Quarry & Motorway Cutting Steeple Ashton Stert Brook Exposure Teffont Evias Quarry and Lane Cutting Upper Chicksgrove Quarry West Harnham Chalk Pit Westbury Ironstone Quarry Wootton Bassett Mud Spring

Neighbouring areas: Avon Berkshire Dorset Gloucestershire Hampshire Oxfordshire Somerset

Coordinates: 51°20′29″N 2°15′25″W / 51.34150°N 2.25693°W / 51.34150; -2.25693

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