Misplaced Pages

Winterbourne Chalk Pit

Site of Special Scientific Interest
View towards Winterbourne Chalk Pit
Location	Berkshire
Grid reference	SU 447 722
Interest	Geological
Area	0.05 hectares (0.12 acres)
Notification	1983
Location map	Magic Map

Winterbourne Chalk Pit is a 0.05-hectare (0.12-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Winterbourne in Berkshire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site. It is located within the North Wessex Downs.

The chalk sediments date to the late Cretaceous period, about 80 million years ago. The pit is the only known area containing rocks of this age in the western part of the London Basin. It is rich in macrofossils, particularly belemnites. The site is private land with no public access.

References

1. ^ "Designated Sites View: Winterbourne Chalk Pit". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
2. "Map of Winterbourne Chalk Pit". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
3. "Winterbourne Chalk Pit (Cenomanian, Turonian, Senonian, Maastrichtian)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
4. ^ "SITE NAME: WINTERBOURNE CHALK PIT" (PDF). Retrieved 4 March 2017.
5. "Winterbourne Chalk Pit" (PDF). British Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 January 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2020.

51°26′49″N 1°21′29″W / 51.447°N 1.358°W / 51.447; -1.358

v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire
Biological	Aldermaston Gravel Pits Ashridge Wood Avery's Pightle Bisham Woods Blackwater Valley Bowdown and Chamberhouse Woods Boxford Water Meadows Bray Meadows Bray Pennyroyal Field Briff Lane Meadows Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths Catmore and Winterly Copses Chawridge Bourne Cleeve Hill Cock Marsh Combe Wood and Linkenholt Hanging Coombe Wood, Frilsham Croker's Hole Decoy Pit, Pools and Woods Easton Farm Meadow Enborne Copse Englemere Pond Freeman's Marsh Great Thrift Wood Greenham and Crookham Commons Heath Lake Hog's Hole Holies Down Inkpen and Walbury Hills Inkpen Common Inkpen Crocus Field Irish Hill Copse Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain Kennet Valley Alderwoods King's Copse Lardon Chase Lodge Wood and Sandford Mill Longmoor Bog Old Copse, Beenham Park Farm Down Redhill Wood River Kennet River Lambourn Sandhurst to Owlsmoor Bogs and Heaths Seven Barrows Snelsmore Common Stanford End Mill and River Loddon Streatley Warren Sulham and Tidmarsh Woods and Meadows Swinley Park and Brick Pits Thatcham Reed Beds Wasing Wood Ponds Wellington College Bog West Woodhay Down West's Meadow, Aldermaston Westfield Farm Chalk Bank White Shute Windsor Forest and Great Park Woolhampton Reed Bed Wraysbury and Hythe End Gravel Pits Wraysbury No 1 Gravel Pit Wykery Copse
Geological	Boxford Chalk Pit Brimpton Pit Cannoncourt Farm Pit Cold Ash Quarry Fognam Chalk Quarry Hamstead Marshall Pit Pincent's Kiln Winterbourne Chalk Pit

• Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire
• Geological Conservation Review sites
• Chalk pits