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which affects employees and volunteers of Avon
Wildlife Trust who might have to enter the mine to count the bats. These legal requirements do not affect leisure access by cavers. Prior to 2000, access to the mine was controlled by the Council of Southern Caving Clubs and cavers coexisted with a
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The quarry workings provided stone for the façade of
Buckingham Palace. The underground workings are of great speleological and historical interest; they are well decorated and contain many delicate stalactites and examples of gull formation (caves features formed by land slippage).
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The site is situated on steep west-facing slopes which overlook the
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Geological Sites of
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For the folly tower at the site that gave the site its name, see
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The disused underground quarries are used for roosting by the
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biological and geological Site of
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Bath and
Bradford-on-Avon Bats Special Area of Conservation
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Bath and
Bradford-on-Avon Bats Special Area of Conservation
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Biological Sites of
Special Scientific Interest in Avon
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occurs here. The damp cliff faces support a variety of
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Site of a tower with the same name in Somerset, England
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Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1974
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492:. Avon Wildlife Trust. Archived from
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214:(SSSI) near the English village of
46:Site of Special Scientific Interest
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791:Tickenham, Nailsea and Kenn Moors
405:. English Nature. Archived from
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436:The Flora of the Bristol Region
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1085:Portishead Pier to Black Nore
995:Dundry Main Road South Quarry
341:Health and Safety at Work Act
307:, and unusual plants such as
1182:Bath and North East Somerset
1125:Winterbourne Railway Cutting
1100:Slickstones Quarry, Cromhall
711:Horseshoe Bend, Shirehampton
666:Congrove Field and The Tumps
1192:Nature reserves in Somerset
721:King's Wood and Urchin Wood
267:The site forms part of the
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726:Long Dole Wood and Meadows
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81:Location within Somerset
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1025:Hinton Charterhouse Pit
756:Plaster's Green Meadows
1050:Kilmersdon Road Quarry
1015:Hartcliff Rocks Quarry
781:St. Catherine's Valley
676:Ellenborough Park West
366:historicengland.org.uk
207:sitting within a 39.9
32:Browne's Folly (tower)
1040:Huish Colliery Quarry
1010:Hampton Rocks Cutting
955:Buckover Road Cutting
621:Brockley Hall Stables
601:Biddle Street, Yatton
325:Greater Horseshoe Bat
496:on 26 September 2011
470:on 26 September 2011
287:(including the rare
283:and nine species of
137:51.39445°N 2.29891°W
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1030:Hinton Hill, Wellow
990:Damery Road Section
965:Cattybrook Brickpit
920:Barns Batch Spinney
910:Banwell Ochre Caves
651:Cleeve Wood, Hanham
228:Avon Wildlife Trust
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1105:Spring Cove Cliffs
1075:Nightingale Valley
985:Cullimore's Quarry
828:Neighbouring areas
606:Bishop's Hill Wood
293:Yellow Bird's-nest
245:have developed on
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524:. 20 March 2019.
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801:Upton Coombe
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170:Notification
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1065:Middle Hope
1055:Lower Woods
766:Puxton Moor
741:Middle Hope
731:Lower Woods
716:Iford Manor
500:11 November
305:woodpeckers
205:folly tower
140: /
115:Coordinates
1171:Categories
1035:Holly Lane
980:Court Hill
900:Avon Gorge
895:Aust Cliff
786:Steep Holm
681:Folly Farm
591:Avon Gorge
532:8 February
348:References
289:Fly Orchid
277:wild thyme
273:Bath Stone
247:Lower Lias
239:River Avon
125:51°23′40″N
1156:Wiltshire
1005:Ham Green
842:Wiltshire
816:Yanal Bog
761:Purn Hill
375:20 August
259:Bathonian
128:2°17′56″W
1151:Somerset
837:Somerset
526:Archived
464:Reserves
281:harebell
220:notified
216:Bathford
203:), is a
200:ST793662
153:Interest
107:ST793662
91:Location
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249:clays,
226:by the
209:hectare
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746:Midger
474:2 June
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335:Access
285:orchid
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297:ferns
190:, or
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502:2011
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440:ISBN
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