Castle Lime Works Quarry
Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
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| Location | Hertfordshire |
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| Grid reference | TL229026 |
| Interest | Geological |
| Area | 1.6 hectares |
| Notification | 1986 |
| Location map | Magic Map |
Castle Lime Works Quarry is a 1.6 hectares (4.0 acres) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near South Mimms in Hertfordshire. The site was notified in 1986 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. The site is a disused chalk quarry and according to Natural England:
- This reveals extensive piping in the top of the chalk resulting from solution at the Chalk - Tertiary sediment interface. Believed to have formed during the Tertiary and Pleistocene, it is the finest exposure of clay-filled pipes in the Chalk Karst of England.[1][2]
The site is on private land and there is no public access.
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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire
- Aldbury Nowers
- Alpine Meadow
- Amwell Quarry
- Ashridge Commons and Woods
- Ashwell Springs
- Benington High Wood
- Blagrove Common
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- Frogmore Meadows
- Great Hormead Park
- Hertford Heath
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- Patmore Heath
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- Sarratt Bottom
- Sawbridgeworth Marsh
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- Tewinbury
- Therfield Heath
- Thorley Flood Pound
- Tring Reservoirs
- Tring Woodlands
- Turnford and Cheshunt Pits
- Wain Wood
- Water End Swallow Holes
- Whippendell Wood
- Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood North
- Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood South
- Castle Lime Works Quarry
- Downfield Pit, Westmill
- Hillcollins Pit
- Little Heath Pit
- Moor Mill Quarry, West
- Oughtonhead Lane
- Westwood Quarry
51°42′31″N 0°13′22″W / 51.70868°N 0.22268°W / 51.70868; -0.22268
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