Hawkesbury Quarry

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Hawkesbury Quarry is one of 136 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire. It is the smallest of them. It lies inside the Cotswolds National Landscape.

Lower Woods and Hawkesbury Meadow are among the SSSIs within 1.7 km. For arrivals by rail, Yate Station is about 8.5 km to the south-west.

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