Local Geological Sites (LGS) in Oxfordshire

A list and map of the Local Geological Sites in Oxfordshire.

View a map of the LGS in Oxfordshire (pdf format, 417.81 KB).

The LGS below are listed by local authority area.

Cherwell 

  • Ardley Fields Quarry
  • Ardley Quarry (North)
  • Balscote Quarry
  • Giants Cave
  • Greenhill Farm Quarry, East (aka The Old Quarry)
  • Greenhill Farm Quarry, West (aka The Old Quarry)
  • Hook Norton Cutting North
  • Hook Norton Cutting South
  • Kirtlington Quarry and Washford Pits Wood
  • Park Farm Quarry
  • Starveall Barn Quarry (West)
  • Temple Mills Quarry North
  • Temple Mills Quarry South (aka Gibraltar Quarry)

Oxford City

  • Lye Valley
  • Magdalen Quarry
  • Rock Edge (aka Crossroads Quarry)
  • Shotover

South Oxfordshire

  • Hill Farm Pit
  • Nettlebed Puddingstones
  • Span Quarry
  • Wheatley Recreation Ground
  • Woodeaton Quarry

Vale of White Horse

  • Alfred's Well
  • Childrey Quarry
  • Coxwell Pit
  • Dry Sandford Quarries
  • Faringdon Pit North
  • Gimbro Copse Quarry
  • Hatford Sand Pit
  • Shellingford Quarry
  • The Manger
  • Tubney Woods Sandpit
  • Wicklesham

West Oxfordshire

  • Ascott-u-Wychwood Cutting
  • Asthall Meander
  • Benetton works (Renault F1)
  • Burford Quarry
  • Dean Bottom (Fulbrook)
  • Devils Quoits
  • Ditchley Road Quarry (aka Town Quarry)
  • Freeland East Lodge
  • Halt Farm Cutting
  • Long Hanborough
  • Rollright Flick Quarry
  • Shill Brook
  • Talbot Hall Spring
  • Watermans Lodge
  • Whitehill Quarry
  • William Smith Memorial