Daw End Railway Cutting SSSI (Walsall)
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The old quarry and railway cuttings at Daw End provide excellent exposures of Wenlock Shale (Coalbrookdale Formation) and the overlying Wenlock Limestone which were deposited during the Silurian Period about 410 million years ago. These are the best exposures available in Britain for this particular group of rocks. During deposition of the Wenlock Limestone marine organisms grew in patches on the sea bed trapping sediment and forming low mounds or reefs. These patch reefs are well seen in the Wenlock Limestone at this site. This is an important geological locality for the study of the Wenlock Series in Britain.
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Coordinates: 52°36'4"N 1°56'59"W
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- Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses National Nature Reserve 68 km
- Hatfield Moor Nature Reserve (Humberhead Peatlands) 126 km
- Dersingham Bog National Nature Reserve 165 km
- Cefn Bryn (Ridge Hill) 190 km
- Arne SSSI and RSPB reserve 211 km
- Colne Estuary National Nature Reserve 214 km
- South Dorset Coast SSSI 221 km
- Loch Leven 414 km
- Bermuda Triangle 5951 km
- Former site of Walsall Aldridge airport 1.5 km
- Calderfields Golf Club 1.8 km
- Walsall (Metropolitan Borough of) 1.8 km
- Walsall Arboretum 2 km
- Goscote Hospital 2.3 km
- Reedswood Park 3.6 km
- Pelsall North Common Local Nature Reserve 4.6 km
- Essington Civil Parish 7.1 km
- Post Codes WV12 & WV13 7.3 km
- South Staffordshire 14 km