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The Yatton to Witham line closed to passengers in 1963; Wookey station closed on 9 September 1963, though goods traffic continued to the paper mills at Wookey until 1965. Wookey station had a small wooden building, unlike some of the other stations on the line which had impressive stone buildings.
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gravels which exhibit scour-and-fill structures in their lower part. A small, silty channel-infilling has yielded an assemblage of
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had been built. The line was converted to standard gauge in the mid-1870s and then linked up to the
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The station opened on 1 August 1871 about a year after the extension of the
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because of the exposure of a 3-metre (9.8 ft) thick sequence of
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in 1878. All the railways involved were absorbed into the
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Special Scientific Interest notified in 1997
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926:Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
921:Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1963
916:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871
610:Geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest
320:geological Site of Special Scientific Interest
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704:Godminster Lane Quarry and Railway Cutting
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521:English Nature citation sheet for the site
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574:. Wimborne: Dovecote Press. p. 138.
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659:Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet Basins
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376:The site was cleared after closure.
441:Site of Special Scientific Interest
220:Site of Special Scientific Interest
41:The railway station before closure
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534:The Directory of Railway Stations
350:to provide through services from
16:Former railway station in England
809:Shepton Montague Railway Cutting
536:. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd.
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799:Sandpit Hole and Bishop's Lot
649:Blue Anchor to Lilstock Coast
819:St. Dunstan's Well Catchment
774:Miller's Hill, Milborne Wick
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365:The station was host to a
305:Bristol and Exeter Railway
185:9 September 1963
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572:Somerset Railway Stations
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433:Line and station closed
407:Line and station closed
293:Natural England website
170:1 August 1871
664:Bruton Railway Cutting
551:McRae, Andrew (1997).
475:Bruton Railway Cutting
415:Cheddar Valley Railway
301:Wookey railway station
754:Leighton Road Cutting
570:Oakley, Mike (2002).
532:Butt, R.V.J. (1995).
429:Wells (Tucker Street)
420:Great Western Railway
360:Great Western Railway
348:East Somerset Railway
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303:was a station on the
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936:Geology of Somerset
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814:Snowdon Hill Quarry
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863:Neighbouring areas
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779:Moon's Hill Quarry
694:Emborough Quarries
679:Cook's Wood Quarry
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397:Following station
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829:Vallis Vale
459:palynomorph
451:Pleistocene
340:broad gauge
328:Wookey Hole
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68:Coordinates
900:Categories
699:Glenthorne
654:Brean Down
644:Ben Knowle
509:McRae 1997
481:References
403:Lodge Hill
370:camp coach
262:Geological
189:1963-09-09
174:1871-08-01
77:51°12′51″N
885:Wiltshire
764:Maes Down
739:Lamb Leer
497:Butt 1995
463:Devensian
165:Key dates
80:2°40′22″W
714:Ham Hill
709:Greylake
614:Somerset
469:See also
322:between
313:Somerset
259:Interest
252:ST531464
240:Somerset
236:Location
112:ST531463
52:Location
759:Low Ham
621:Summary
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334:History
317:hectare
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132:History
127:Disused
63:England
880:Dorset
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453:-aged
356:Witham
352:Yatton
124:Status
60:Mendip
27:Wookey
875:Devon
637:SSSIs
344:Wells
324:Wells
56:Wells
870:Avon
557:ISBN
538:ISBN
326:and
284:1997
280:1997
267:Area
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367:GWR
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