Dulcote Quarry
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Dulcote Quarry is a disused limestone quarry at Dulcote, near Wells on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. The quarry measures around Script error: No such module "convert". from West to East and around Script error: No such module "convert". from North to South, with an area of Script error: No such module "convert"., which is surrounded by Script error: No such module "convert". of woodland.[1][2]
The site has been used for quarrying since the mid-19th century.[3] The Foster Yeoman Company was founded at Dulcote, in 1923,[3] and later became part of Aggregate Industries. The site achieved an output of approximately 0.25M tonnes per year of Carboniferous Limestone, for general purpose construction aggregates.[4] Much of the stone was moved on the Cheddar Valley Line (a branch line of the Great Western Railway) by an independent company which became known as Mendip Rail.[5]
A Geodiversity audit of the site was carried out in 2004, which highlighted the limestone strata and fossils identified.[6] These include Carboniferous Limestone overlain by Triassic Mercia Mudstones and Sandstones with geodes, which were formed by siliceous mineral replacement.[7][8]
In 2007 the quarry was bought by the Kilbride group, a subsidiary of Kilmartin Holdings which itself became part of Hansteen Holdings. When the parent company went into receivership the part owning Dulcote survived and put the worked-out quarry site up for commercial redevelopment with outline planning permission for a price of £1.5 million.[9][10] In 2016 the site was bought for development as a food production site for Charlie Bigham's,[11] which opened in 2017.[12] In March 2022, a multi-user path (part of the Strawberry Line) connecting the end of the Wells-Dulcote railway path at Dulcote underpass to the quarry entrance was officially opened.[13]
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