Dinton Quarry

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Dinton Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire. The county has 119 Sites of Special Scientific Interest; this is one. It is the smallest of them. It lies within Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape.

For more of the same, Knapp and Barnett's Downs and Burcombe Down are close by. For arrivals by rail, Tisbury Station is about 6.3 km to the west.

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