Torr Works

Torr Works
The railhead at Torr Works
The entrance to Torr Works Quarry
Class 08 shunter 08032 in the yard at Torr Works

Torr Works quarry, grid reference ST695446 is a limestone quarry at East Cranmore, near Shepton Mallet on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. It is also known as Merehead Quarry.

The site covers an area of some 200 hectares, including 60 hectares which have been landscaped to blend with the surrounding countryside. It is operated by the Aggregate Industries Company employing over 200 people and produces 6 million tonnes of limestone annually which is carried directly from the quarry by Mendip Rail.

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.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Torr Quarry". Geodiversity Audit of Active Aggregate Quarries: Quarries in Somerset. http://www.somerset.gov.uk/somerset/ete/countryside/geodiversity/index.cfm?override=subtopic&infoid=4651. Retrieved 2007-02-16. 

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Coordinates: 51°11′59″N 2°26′16″W / 51.19979°N 2.43791°W / 51.19979; -2.43791


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