Tags: Site Of Special Scientific Interest.
Hobbs Quarry (grid reference ST622446) is a 0.5 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Shepton Mallet on the Mendip Hills in Somerset notified in 1984.This disused quarry which now forms the back of a builders merchants yard is a Geological Conservation Review Site which demonstrates early Jurassic transgression with steeply-dipping Carboniferous Limestone being overlain by flatter-lying massive limestones (of early Jurassic age) known as the Downside Stone.
