Torr Works
Torr Works quarry, grid reference ST695446 is a limestone quarry at East Cranmore, near Shepton Mallet on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. The quarry was formerly known as Merehead, a name which has been retained for its rail depot on the opposite side of the A361 road.
The site, located not far from a limestone deposit, covers an area of some 205 hectares, including 60 hectares which have been landscaped to blend with the surrounding countryside.[1] It has been operated by Aggregate Industries since their take over of Foster Yeoman in 2006.[2] The site employs over 250 people and produces 7.5 million tonnes of limestone annually which is carried directly from the quarry by Mendip Rail.[3]
A Geodiversity audit of the site recorded pale to dark grey well bedded Carboniferous Limestone dipping consistently southwards with a small area of overlying horizontally bedded buff-coloured Jurassic oolitic limestone forming an angular unconformity.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Geology of the Mendip Hills". Southampton University. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ "Torr Works and Asham Wood". British Geological Survey. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ "Torr Quarry: Proposed Deepening" (PDF). Aggregate Industries. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ "Torr Quarry". Geodiversity Audit of Active Aggregate Quarries: Quarries in Somerset. Retrieved 2007-02-16.