Doulting Railway Cutting

Doulting Railway Cutting
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location 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.

Sources

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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