Clipsham Old Quarry and Pickworth Great Wood is a 111.2-hectare (275-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Rutland.

[1][2] Clipsham Old Quarry is a Geological Conservation Review site,[3] and Pickworth Great Wood is owned by the Forestry Commission.

Clipsham Old Quarry has dense hawthorn scrub and limestone grassland with a variety of lime-loving herbs such as dwarf thistle and yellow-wort.

The quarry exposes rocks of the Bajocian Middle and Upper Lincolnshire Limestone around 170 million years ago.

[4] There is public access to Pickworth Great Wood, but not to Clipsham Old Quarry.