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Hobbs Quarry SSSI, Shepton Mallet
Hobbs
Quarry
is a 0.5
hectare
geological Site of Special Scientific Interest
near
Shepton Mallet
on the Mendip
Hills in Somerset
,
notified
in
1984
.
This disused
quarry
, which now forms the back of a
builders
merchants
yard
, is a
Geological Conservation Review
Site
which
demonstrates
early
Jurassic
transgression
, with steeply-dipping
Carboniferous Limestone
being overlain by flatter-lying
massive
limestones
known as the Downside
Stone
.