Buckover Road Cutting

Buckover Road Cutting
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location within Gloucestershire
Area of Search	Avon
Grid reference	ST665906
Coordinates	51°36′48″N 2°28′59″W / 51.613215°N 2.483144°W / 51.613215; -2.483144Coordinates: 51°36′48″N 2°28′59″W / 51.613215°N 2.483144°W / 51.613215; -2.483144
Interest	Geological
Area	1.7 hectares (4.2 acres)
Notification	1967 (1967)
Natural England website

Buckover Road Cutting (grid reference ST665906) is a 1.7 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the town of Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, notified in 1967.

The site shows an unconformity between Silurian rocks and quartz conglomerate of the Devonian period.^[1]

References

Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Avon

Aust Cliff Avon Gorge Banwell Caves Banwell Ochre Caves Barnhill Quarry Barns Batch Spinney Bickley Wood Bleadon Hill Bourne Bowlditch Quarry Brinkmarsh Quarry Brown's Folly Buckover Road Cutting Burrington Combe Cattybrook Brickpit Clevedon Shore Compton Martin Ochre Mine Court Hill Cullimore's Quarry Damery Road Section Dundry Main Road South Quarry Gordano Valley Ham Green Hampton Rocks Cutting Hartcliff Rocks Quarry Hawkesbury Quarry Hinton Charterhouse Pit Hinton Hill, Wellow Holly Lane Huish Colliery Quarry Kenn Church, Kenn Pier & Yew Tree Farm Kilmersdon Road Quarry Lower Woods Lulsgate Quarry Middle Hope Newton St Loe Nightingale Valley North Road Quarry, Bath Portishead Pier to Black Nore Quarry Steps, Durdham Down Severn Estuary Slickstones Quarry, Cromhall Spring Cove Cliffs Stidham Farm Tytherington Quarry Weston-in-Gordano Winterbourne Railway Cutting Writhlington

Neighbouring areas Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire

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