Yeolands Quarry

It is now abandoned for extracting stone, though the adjacent Broadcroft Quarry to the west, which links to Yeolands, is still in some use, as well as being a butterfly reserve.

[1] By the late 1980s the central bottom region of the quarry had an established ecosystem where small ponds were fed by rivulets.

However, from the 21st century the quarry was used for dumping overburden, and as such changed considerably, with the ecosystem buried deep under rubble.

[2] The north-eastern face of the quarry has a clean, albeit partly overgrown, sequence of Portland Stone, both Cherty Series and Freestone.

With plans to showcase hundreds of world-class paleontological remains, the project has received both local and national support.