Quarries · West Midlands
Cliffe Hill Quarry
Cliffe Hill Quarry — geological site in Leicestershire, England.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 45 min–1.5 h
- Nearest railway station
- Quorn & Woodhouse · 9.3 km
About
Cliffe Hill Quarry is a quarry in the United Kingdom. Wikidata describes it as: "geological site in Leicestershire, England". Coordinates: 52.6910°, -1.3000°.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Cliffe Hill Quarry SSSI
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Cliffe Hill Quarry is a 19.2 hectares (47 acres) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the western outskirts of Markfield in Leicestershire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site. This quarry exposes volcanic and sedimentary Charnian rocks dating to the Ediacaran period (635 to 541 Ma) of the Proterozoic eon. It was probably then a volcanic island. An unusually homogeneous form of the rock diorite found here is sometimes called markfieldite, named after the village. The site is private land with no public access.
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- Coordinates
- 52.6910, -1.3000
- County
- Leicestershire
- District
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Parish
- Stanton-under-Bardon
- Postcode
- LE67 9TZ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Mid Leicestershire
- Nearest railway station
- Quorn & Woodhouse — 9.3 km
Sources
- wikidata: Q48810048 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Cliffe Hill Quarry (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Cliffe Hill Quarry 2.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Cliffe Hill Quarry?
- Cliffe Hill Quarry is in Leicestershire, the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode LE67 9TZ), in the parish of Stanton-under-Bardon.
- Is Cliffe Hill Quarry a protected site?
- Yes — Cliffe Hill Quarry is part of the Cliffe Hill Quarry SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- How do I get to Cliffe Hill Quarry?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode LE67 9TZ. It sits within the Mid Leicestershire parliamentary constituency.