Bowlditch Quarry

Bowlditch Quarry

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location within Somerset
Area of Search	Avon
Grid reference	ST668558
Coordinates	51°18′01″N 2°28′39″W / 51.30035°N 2.47759°W / 51.30035; -2.47759Coordinates: 51°18′01″N 2°28′39″W / 51.30035°N 2.47759°W / 51.30035; -2.47759
Interest	Geological
Area	0.6 acres (0.0024 km2; 0.00094 sq mi)
Notification	1952 (1952)
Natural England website

Bowlditch Quarry (grid reference ST668558) is a 0.25 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Clandown, Bath and North East Somerset, notified in 1952.

The site provides a remarkable attenuated and broken succession stretching from the top of the Rhaetian to the lowest Pliensbachian periods. This Lias section provides a good example of biostratigraphic principles.