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Ardley Cutting and Quarry is a 40.1-hectare (99-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Bicester in Oxfordshire. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site [3] and an area of 11 hectares (27 acres) is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust as Ardley Wood Quarry. [4]
Lyehill Quarry: 2.8 hectares (6.9 acres) [159] NO Oxford 159] GCR [160] Map: Citation: This disused quarry exposes rocks dating to the Wheatley Limestone member of the Stanford Formation, approximately 160 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic. The deposits are limestones in an unstable reef substrate, and the only fossils are of oysters.
Ardley is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Bicester. The parish includes the village of Fewcott , which is now contiguous with Ardley. The 2021 Census recorded the population of Ardley parish as 740.
The UK’s biggest ever dinosaur trackway that is over 166 million years old has been discovered in an Oxfordshire quarry.. A worker at Dewards Farm Quarry spotted the 200 footprints while he was ...
Ardley Trackways is a 63.6-hectare (157-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Bicester in Oxfordshire. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a Geological Conservation Review site. [ 3 ]
Shipton-on-Cherwell and Whitehill Farm Quarries is a 30-hectare (74-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Kidlington in Oxfordshire. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site. [3] [4] This site exposes a lithostratigraphic succession dating to the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic, around 167 million years ...
Kirtlington Quarry is a 3.1-hectare (7.7-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Kirtlington in Oxfordshire. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a Geological Conservation Review site, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and it is part of the 7.4-hectare (18-acre) Kirtlington Quarry Local Nature Reserve .
Otmoor SSSI is a 213-hectare (530-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Oxford in Oxfordshire. [1] [2] It is adjacent to RSPB Otmoor, and they are both part of Otmoor, an area of wetland and wet grassland which was enclosed in the early nineteenth century.