Langport Railway Cutting

Langport Railway Cutting
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location within Somerset
Area of Search	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

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

External links

English Nature website (SSSI information)

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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