Quarry Moor
Quarry Moor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, at the south edge of Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, and adjacent to the A61 road. It contains an outcrop of Magnesian Limestone, exposed by former quarrying. 255 million years ago this limestone was the peripheral sediment of a tropical sea. The land was donated in 1945 to the people of Ripon by the town's mayor, Alderman Thomas Fowler Spence, a varnish manufacturer. The land was notified as an SSSI in 1986 because its calcareous grassland supported a large diversity of plant species. The site features a Schedule 8 protected plant, thistle broomrape. The land is protected as a nature reserve, and it is also managed as a recreational area. Therefore, its calcareous grass area is fenced off for protection and study, but it also contains a car park, information signs, a children's play area, accessible paths, benches, and dog waste bins.
Q422211
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Q661529
Ripon
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Q23086
North Yorkshire
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Q4649538
A61 road
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Magnesian Limestone
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sediment
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varnish
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calcareous grassland
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Schedule 8
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Q159910
thistle broomrape
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nature reserve
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play area
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Q555097
accessible
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Q204776
benches
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dog waste bins
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Q80448424
Quarry Moor
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1945
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1986-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1986
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61
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8
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