Hobbs Quarry SSSI, Shepton Mallet

Hobbs Quarry () is a 0.5 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Shepton Mallet on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, notified in 1984.

This disused quarry, which now forms the back of a builders merchants yard, is a Geological Conservation Review Site which demonstrates early Jurassic transgression, with steeply-dipping Carboniferous Limestone being overlain by flatter-lying massive limestones (of early Jurassic age) known as the Downside Stone.

See also Quarries of the Mendip Hills

Sources English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 22 July 2006).

External links Natural England website (SSSI information)