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MoD CORSHAM: Tunnel Quarry is a limestone quarry and associated underground workings located near Corsham in Wiltshire. The site represents quarrying activity dating to the medieval and post-medieval periods, when the underlying oolitic limestone was extracted for building stone and other purposes. The quarry includes tunnel systems driven into the rock face, characteristic of the underground stone extraction methods employed in this region. The workings form part of the broader landscape of stone quarrying activity that has been significant to the Corsham area since at least the medieval period.
MoD CORSHAM: Tunnel Quarry is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1409857. View the official record →
MoD CORSHAM: Tunnel Quarry is a limestone quarry and associated underground workings located near Corsham in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1409857.
MoD CORSHAM: Tunnel Quarry is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1409857.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including MoD CORSHAM: Prime Minister's Rooms and Operations Rooms (0.5 km), MoD CORSHAM: Quarry Working Areas in West Lung, Spring Quarry (1.3 km), Three bowl barrows 160m south west of Hatt House (3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of MoD CORSHAM: Tunnel Quarry's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
MoD CORSHAM: Tunnel Quarry stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.