Tags: Site Of Special Scientific Interest.
Leighton Road Cutting (grid reference ST702437) is a 0.6 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest between East Cranmore and Cloford in Somerset notified in 1984. It is a Geological Conservation Review siteLeighton Road Cutting provides exposure of a series of early Jurassic limestones of Lower Lias age which are the only known outcrops of these particular rocks to occur in a normal horizontally-bedded sequence in the Mendips.