Langport Railway Cutting

Langport Railway CuttingSite of Special Scientific Interest

Location within Somerset

Location| Somerset
Grid reference| ST427272
Coordinates| 51°02′29″N 2°49′07″W﻿ / ﻿51.04128°N 2.81868°W﻿ / 51.04128; -2.81868Coordinates: 51°02′29″N 2°49′07″W﻿ / ﻿51.04128°N 2.81868°W﻿ / 51.04128; -2.81868
Interest| Geological
Area| 0.5 hectares (0.0050 km2; 0.0019 sq mi)
Notification| 1992 (1992)
Natural England website

Langport Railway Cutting (grid reference ST427272) is a 0.5 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Langport in Somerset, England, notified in 1992. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

Gravels exposed at Langport Railway Cutting show scour-and-fill structures consistent with braided stream deposition. This site is of importance as one of the few permanently exposed localities for coldstage Pleistocene gravels in south Somerset and more particularly because it is the first site in Britain in which typical calcrete features have been recorded. As such it is of national significance and has considerable research potential.

## Sources[edit]

* English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 10 August 2006)

## External links[edit]

* English Nature website (SSSI information)

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Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset

Summary|

* Summarised data for all sites (biological and geological)

SSSIs|

* Ben Knowle
* Blue Anchor to Lilstock Coast
* Brean Down
* Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet Basins
* Bruton Railway Cutting
* Cheddar Complex
* Cloford Quarry
* Cook's Wood Quarry
* Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill
* Doulting Railway Cutting
* Emborough Quarries
* Glenthorne
* Godminster Lane Quarry and Railway Cutting
* Greylake
* Ham Hill
* Hobbs Quarry
* Holwell Quarries
* Hurcott Farm
* Hurcott Lane Cutting
* Lamb Leer
* Langport Railway Cutting
* Laycock Railway Cutting
* Leighton Road Cutting
* Low Ham
* Maes Down
* Maesbury Railway Cutting
* Miller's Hill, Milborne Wick
* Moon's Hill Quarry
* Priddy Caves
* Priddy Pools
* Rodney Stoke SSSI
* Sandpit Hole and Bishop's Lot
* Seavington St Mary
* Shepton Montague Railway Cutting
* Snowdon Hill Quarry
* St. Dunstan's Well Catchment
* Thrupe Lane Swallet
* Vallis Vale
* Viaduct Quarry
* Windsor Hill Quarry
* Wookey Hole
* Wookey Station
* Wurt Pit and Devil's Punchbowl

Neighbouring areas|

* Avon
* Devon
* Dorset
* Wiltshire

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