Torr Works

Torr Works quarry, grid reference ST695446 is a limestone quarry at East Cranmore, near Shepton Mallet on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.

The quarry was formerly known as Merehead, a name which has been retained for its rail depot on the opposite side of the A361 road.

[1] A geodiversity audit of the site in 2004 recorded pale to dark grey well bedded Carboniferous Limestone dipping consistently southwards with a small area of overlying horizontally bedded buff-coloured Jurassic oolitic limestone forming an angular unconformity.

[2] In 1938 the recently opened Merehead Quarry was taken over by Limmer and Trinidad.

[4] The site employs over 250 people and produces 7.5 million tonnes of limestone annually which is carried directly from the quarry by Mendip Rail.