Langport Railway Cutting

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location within Somerset
Location	Somerset
Grid reference	ST427272
Coordinates	51°02′29″N 2°49′07″W / 51.04128°N 2.81868°W / 51.04128; -2.81868
Interest	Geological
Area	0.5 hectares (0.0050 km2; 0.0019 sq mi)
Notification	1992 (1992)
Natural England website

Langport Railway Cutting (grid reference ST427272) is a 0.5 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Langport in Somerset, England, notified in 1992. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

Gravels exposed at Langport Railway Cutting show scour-and-fill structures consistent with braided stream deposition. This site is of importance as one of the few permanently exposed localities for coldstage Pleistocene gravels in south Somerset and more particularly because it is the first site in Britain in which typical calcrete features have been recorded. As such it is of national significance and has considerable research potential.

Sources

• English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 10 August 2006)

External links

• English Nature website (SSSI information)