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The Mendip Way crosses this field into the woods at the corner opposite.
©Patrick Mackie
Dist:0.4km<br/>The edge of Whatley limestone Quarry no less. A no go area for this geographer, leaving it for bolder spirits. Seen from the road between Chantry and Whatley near Railford Bridge.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking east. Whatley Limestone Quarry, a major feature of this area, is about 200 yards to the left.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km<br/>Coming from Whatley. Little Acre Farm is on the right and squeezes in between the road and Whatley Quarry about 300 yards to the north.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km<br/>Whatley limestone quarry is just a few hundred yards to the left.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.6km<br/>The old road from Frome to Wells took the high route across the Mendips, a far more pleasant drive than the more recent road through Shepton Mallet.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>A Victorian reign postbox set into a garden wall.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>Chantry church is built of Doulting limestone, finely carved, both inside and out in the decorated style of the Gothic revival. It has been described as a little gem and inside is light and airy. It consists of a nave, chancel, porch and vestry and has remained virtually unchanged since it was first built. The foundation stone was laid in 1843 and the church was consecrated in 1846.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.8km<br/>The clear bridleway takes walkers and riders to the village of Chantry.
©Trish Steel
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©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.8km<br/>The design is attributed to Sir Gilbert Scott, in association with W.B.Moffat. The church was built between 1844 to 1846, and consecrated in 1848.
©Patrick Mackie
Dist:0.8km<br/>Taken from the road outside. "The quarry exhibits pale to dark grey Carboniferous Limestone with small area of overlying horizontally bedded buff-coloured Jurassic oolitic limestone forming an angular unconformity, with extensive dolomitisation of top of the Black Rock Limestone. There are abundant near-vertical fissures and joints near top of limestone with karst weathering and minor pinnacle formation." The above was copied from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatley_quarry where there is much more.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.8km<br/>Just beyond the northern wall of the parish church at Whatley.
©Patrick Mackie
Dist:0.8km<br/>Most of the limestone from Whatley Quarry is sent by rail, much to the relief of the surrounding road system. This minor road runs between Mells (north) and Nunney (south).
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.9km<br/>A view looking southwest towards a weir and footbridge on Fordbury Water.
©Phil Williams

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