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Gripwood Quarry Tunnel Entrance

Hillside Lodge, Westwood Lane, Jones Hill, Bradford on Avon.

NGR:ST 82417 60250
WGS84:51.34106, -2.25381
Length:1889 m
Depth:0 m
Altitude:55 m
Tags:none
Registry:wbc

This is the "Tunnel Entrance" at the south eastern edge of underground quarry. It is located in a rockery of the private garden of Hillside Lodge and has been infilled from the surface leaving a small pipe visible.

Alternate Names: Frome Road Quarry, Jones Hill Quarry, Bradford on Avon 9, Woodside Quarry

Notes: Gripwood Quarry was still active until at least 1911* quarrying for stone. Between 1984 and the 1990s, Darlington mushrooms used it for cultivation. It was offered for sale in April 2011 and was described as a "Disused quarry consisting of 1.7 acres of land with buildings, which gives access to an extensive underground stone quarry of approximately 2 acres."

The quarry was notified as a SSSI in 1951 as site of considerable historical, palaeontological and stratigraphic interest. It is the only location to see the junction between the Bradford Clay and the underlying limestones of the Great Oolite.

* Wiltshire Record Office in Chippenham holds a hand drawn and coloured plan of the quarry workings dated 1911.

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