Hawthorn Quarry

Hawthorn Quarry
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Country	England
Region	North East
District	Easington

Location	NZ435463
- coordinates	GB-ENG 54°48′36″N 1°19′26″W / 54.81000°N 1.32389°W / 54.81000; -1.32389Coordinates: GB-ENG 54°48′36″N 1°19′26″W / 54.81000°N 1.32389°W / 54.81000; -1.32389

Area	9.8 ha (24.2 acres)

Notification	1990
Management	Natural England

Area of Search	County Durham
Interest	Geological

Location of Hawthorn Quarry SSSI, Co Durham
Website: Map of site

Hawthorn Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Easington district of west County Durham, England. It is a disused quarry, which is situated just north of the eastern end of Hawthorn Dene SSSI.

The site has been identified by the Geological Conservation Review as being of national importance for its exposures of Middle Magnesian Limestone, which include reef beds, overlying boulder beds, stromatolites and bedded oolites. The site is considered valuable for an understanding of the later evolution of carbonate environments of the Middle Magnesian.^[1]

References

↑ "Hawthorn Quarry" (PDF). English Nature. 1984. Retrieved 21 July 2010.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham

Backstone Bank and Baal Hill Woods Baldersdale Woodlands Bishop Middleham Quarry Bollihope, Pikestone, Eggleston and Woodland Fells Botany Hill Bowes Moor Bowlees and Friar House Meadows Brasside Pond Brignall Banks Burnhope Burn Butterby Oxbow Cassop Vale Castle Eden Dene Causey Bank Mires Charity Land Close House Mine Cornriggs Meadows Cotherstone Moor Crag Gill Crime Rigg and Sherburn Hill Quarries Dabble Bank Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine Durham Coast Fairy Holes Cave Far High House Meadows Fishburn Grassland Foster's Hush Frog Wood Bog God's Bridge Grains o' th' Beck Meadows Green Croft and Langley Moor Greenfoot Quarry Hannah's Meadows Hawthorn Dene Hawthorn Quarry Hell Kettles Hesledon Moor East Hesledon Moor West Hexhamshire Moors Hisehope Burn Valley Hulam Fen Hunder Beck Juniper Kilmond Scar Low Redford Meadows Lune Forest Mere Beck Meadows Middle Crossthwaite Middle Side and Stonygill Meadows Middleton Quarry Middridge Quarry Moorhouse and Cross Fell Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor Neasham Fen Newton Ketton Meadow Old Moss Lead Vein Park End Wood Pig Hill Pike Whin Bog Pittington Hill Pow Hill Bog Quarrington Hill Grasslands Railway Stell West Raisby Hill Grassland Raisby Hill Quarry Redcar Field Rigg Farm and Stake Hill Meadows Rogerley Quarry Sherburn Hill Shipley and Great Woods Sleightholme Beck Gorge - The Troughs Slit Woods Stony Cut, Cold Hesledon Teesdale Allotments The Bottoms The Carrs Thrislington Plantation Town Kelloe Bank Trimdon Limestone Quarry Tuthill Quarry Upper Teesdale Waldridge Fell West Newlandside Meadows West Park Meadows West Rigg Open Cutting Westernhope Burn Wood Wingate Quarry Witton-le-Wear Yoden Village Quarry

Neighbouring areas Cleveland Northumberland Tyne and Wear

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