Shillingstone Quarry

Shillingstone Quarry SSSI, Dorset is an 8.13 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England, notified in 1995.

Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of the Holy Rood and St Andrew’s Church, Okeford Fitzpaine.

Church of the Holy Rood

Church

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Church of the Holy Rood is situated 1 mile north of Shillingstone Quarry.

St Andrew’s Church, Okeford Fitzpaine

Church

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St Andrew's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset, and in the Diocese of Salisbury. It is in the Okeford Benefice, a group of four parishes in the Blackmore Vale. St Andrew’s Church, Okeford Fitzpaine is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Shillingstone Quarry.

Church of St Mary

Church

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Church of St Mary is situated 1½ miles south of Shillingstone Quarry.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Turnworth and Belchalwell Street.

Turnworth

Village

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Turnworth is a small village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on the Dorset Downs five miles west of Blandford Forum. It consists of a few cottages and farmhouses scattered around a church and manor house.

Belchalwell Street

Hamlet

Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Belchalwell Street is a village in Dorset, England, at the foot of Bell Hill, generally included in the village of Belchalwell. Belchalwell Street is situated 1½ miles west of Shillingstone Quarry.

Child Okeford

Village

Photo: Clive Perrin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Child Okeford is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, 3 miles east of the small town of Sturminster Newton. Child Okeford lies downstream from Sturminster, along the River Stour, which passes half a mile west of the village. Child Okeford is situated 2 miles north of Shillingstone Quarry.

Shillingstone Quarry

Type: Quarry
Description: chalk quarry now a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England
Categories: Site of Special Scientific Interest and industry
Location: Shillingstone, North Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.88731° or 50° 53′ 14″ north

Longitude

-2.25242° or 2° 15′ 9″ west

Open location code

9C2VVPPX+W2

OpenStreetMap ID

way 132376154

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

Wikidata ID

Q7496675

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