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A-Z Geological Site Index

These are geological sites in our geological site database. See also our geology site map and Geological sites search pages.

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Abbotts Hall Boulder
Aldwick Lane Puddingstone
BreG1 All Saints Church, Doddinghurst
BraG1 Alphamstone Church (churchyard boulders)
BraG27 Alphamstone Gravel Pits
UfdG1 Alsa Lodge Gravel Pit
Ardleigh Gravel Pit SSSI
ThG1 Arena Essex Sand Pit
UfdG2 Arkesden Chalk Pit
UfdG3 Arkesden War Memorial
Armigers Farm Boulder
Ashdon Brickworks Pit
UfdG4 Ashdon meteorite (site of fall)
Ashdon Road Swallow Hole
Ashdon Sarsen Stone
Asheldham Pit
Audley End House Septarian nodule
UfdG5 Audley End Sarsen Stone
Audley End Station Sarsen Stone
Aveley Clay Pits (London Clay)
Baldwins Farm and Barling Hall Pits
Ballingdon Hill (road cutting)
Ballingdon Hill Sand Pit (site of)
Barclays Bank Sarsen Stone
Bardfield Saling Church Boulder
Barkers Farm Sarsen Stone
Bartlow Gravel Pit
Bartlow Road Chalk Pit
Beacon Cliff
EpPG1 Beauchamp Roding Sarsen stone
UfdG6 Beaumont Hill Sarsen Stone
Beaumont Quay Limekiln
TeG1 Beaumont Red Crag Outlier
Beckton Borehole (site of)
Beeches Close Railway Cutting
ChG1 Beehive Lane Sarsen Stone
Belhus Park Motorway Cutting
ThG2 Belhus Woods Country Park
UfdG7 Bentfield End Sarsen Stone
Billericay Railway Cutting
Birch Gravel quarry
Birchanger Interchange (M11 motorway cuttings)
BreG2 Blackmore Post Office Stone
EpPG2 Blackweir Pond, Epping Forest
ThG3 Bluelands Quarry
Boarded Barns Farm Glacial Lake
Bocking Church Street (mammoth finds)
Bordeaux Pit
Botany Pit
Bow Creek Meanders
Boxted Church Pagan Stones
Bradwell Chenier Ridges (part of Dengie SSSI)
BraG2 Bradwell Gravel Quarry
BreG3 Brentwood Brickworks Pit
Brentwood Bypass Drainage Trench
Brentwood Railway Cutting
Brick House Farm Boulder
BraG3 Brick Kiln Hill Brickworks Pit
ThG4 Brickbarn Wood
Brightlingsea Copperas Works (site of)
Broomfield Gravel Quarry (former)
Broomfield Sarsen Stones
ThG5 Buckingham Hill Sand Quarry
UfdG8 Buckinghams Farm Sarsen Stone
ChG2 Buell Spring
ChG17 Bulls Lodge Gravel Quarry
BraG4 Bulmer Brickworks
Bushes Farm Boulders
ChG16 Bushy Hill
Canvey Island Borehole (site of)
Canvey Island mammoth tooth
Castle Chalk Pit
Catholic Church of Our Lady Immaculate, Chelmsford
UfdG9 Catmere End Sarsen Stone
Chadwell St Mary Sarsen Stone
UfdG10 Chalk Farm Lane Chalk Pit
ChG3 Channels Boulders
MaG2 Chantry Wood Boulder
ChG14 Chelmsford Museum Puddingstone
Chigborough Lakes Nature Reserve
Chigwell M11 motorway excavations
Chingford Mill Pumping Station
Chingford reservoir excavations
CoG1 Church Lane Gravel Cliff
City of London Cemetery
Clacton Cliffs and Foreshore (part of Clacton Cliffs and Foreshore SSSI)
Clacton Golf Course (part of Clacton Cliffs and Foreshore SSSI)
UfdG11 Clatterbury Lane Puddingstone
EpPG3 Cobbins Brook
TeG2 Cockaynes Wood Nature Reserve
BraG5 Colemans Farm Gravel Quarry
BreG4 College Wood Gravel Pits
Colne Point Shingle Spit (part of Colne Estuary SSSI)
Colne Road Sarsen Stone
BreG5 Coombe Green Sand Pit
CptG1 Coombe Wood
Coopers Beach (Restaurant Site) (part of Colne Estuary SSSI)
UfdG12 Coopers End Farm Boulders
Copford Brick Pits (site of)
EpPG4 Copped Hall Green Sarsen Stone
Copperas Bay and Copperas Wood
County Farm Sarsen Stones
Cowlands Farm Quarry
Cranham (temporary exposures of London Clay)
Crave Hall Farm Chalk Pit
Crown House Borehole (site of)
Crumps Farm Quarry
Cudmore Grove Cliffs and Foreshore (part of Colne Estuary SSSI)
Dagenham Breach
TeG3 Dakings Pit
ChG4 Danbury Common gravel pits
Dansand Quarry
ThG6 Davy Down Riverside Park Sarsen Stone
Debden Puddingstone
UfdG13 Debden Road Chalk Pit
UfdG14 Debden Water Gravel Pit
Dedham sarsen gravestone
Dellows Lane Sarsen Stones
Deremy's Stone
Doddinghurst Road Main Drainage Scheme
Doggetts Pit
Dolphin Chalk Quarry
Dovercourt Red Crag outliers
Dovercourt Spa (site of)
Dunton Research and Engineering Centre (temporary excavation)
East London Pingos
East Tilbury Marshes
Eastbrookend Country Park
Eastfield Plantation Puddingstone
Eastwood Pumping Station
BraG6 Edgars Farm Boulders
UfdG15 Elm Grove Summer House
Elmdon Lee Chalk Pit
Elmhurst Gardens road cutting
Elsenham Quarry
Elsenham Spring Water Factory
Epping Road Boulders
Fairlop Waters Country Park
UfdG16 Farnham Wood Puddingstones
BraG8 Ferriers Farm Pit (Bures Pit)
Fields east of Stifford Bridge
BraG9 Finchingfield Boulder
CoG2 Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve
Fireball meteor of 1890
Five Bells Railway Cutting
UfdG17 Flitch Way Ballast Pit and Tufa Springs
Fobbing Borehole
Folkestone Road allotments
Fossil mammals from Prittlewell
Foulness Island (part of Foulness SSSI)
Foxborough Pit
UfdG18 Freewood Lane Boulder
BraG11 Friars Farm Boundary Stone
Friars Park (former brick pits)
Frinton cliffs
ChG5 Fultons Farmhouse Boulder
TeG4 Furze Hill Gravel Pit
Fyfield Church Sarsen Stone
Galleywood Common
Gallions Reach (temporary excavation)
TeG5 Gants Pit (site of)
Gaylers Brick Pit (site of)
Gerpins Pit, Rainham
Gestingthorpe Brickworks (site of)
UfdG19 Gibson Boulders
Gladwyns Farm Sarsen Stone
Glemsford Picnic Site (Essex side of the border)
Globe Pit SSSI
MaG3 Goldhanger Village Well
BraG13 Goldingham Hall Chalk Pit
Goldsands Road Pit Sarsen Stone
Goldsands Road Pit SSSI
Good Easter Sarsen Stone
Grave of Edward Charlesworth
Grave of Samuel Hazzledine Warren
Gravel Wood
ThG7 Gravelhill Wood, Langdon Hills
Gravelpit Wood
ThG8 Grays Gorge (previously known as Grays Chalk Quarry)
Grays Town Park
Great Bardfield Church Pagan Stones
Great Braxted Church
Great Canfield Sarsen Stone
Great Chesterford Gravel Pit (site of)
Great Chesterford Primary School
Great Clacton sarsen stone (unlocated)
Great Holland Pits Nature Reserve
Great Leighs Sarsen Stone
BraG14 Great Yeldham Brickworks (site of)
CoG3 Greenbank House Sarsen Stones
Greenfields Pingo
Greens Farm Sarsen Stones
CoG4 Greenstead Puddingstone
CoG5 Greenstead Sarsen Stone
Grimsditch Wood Flint Mines (site of)
Grove Road, Woodford (temporary excavation)
ThG9 Gun Hill Gravel Pit, West Tilbury (also known as Broom Hill)
Hackney Crocodile (precise location of find not known)
Hackney Wick Pit (site of)
CptG2 Hadleigh Castle landslip
Hadleigh Church Sarsen Stone
Hadleigh Great Wood
CptG3 Hadleigh Park
EpPG5 Hainault Forest
Hainault Forest Country Park
Hall Lane Road Cutting (A127)
Hall's Quarry SSSI
Hallsford Bridge Clay Pit (site of)
Hambro Hill Sand Pits
Hamford Water National Nature Reserve
Hangmans Wood Deneholes
Harlow Common M11 motorway cutting
HaG1 Harlow Puddingstone
Harlow town centre
Harts Wood
Harwich Borehole (site of)
Harwich Foreshore SSSI
Harwich Roman Cement Works (site of John Pattricks cement works)
Hatfield Broad Oak Church Puddingstone
UfdG20 Hatfield Forest erratic boulders
Havering Ridge (includes Havering CP and Bedfords Park)
Havering Well (site of)
UfdG21 Hazel End Sarsen Stone
Henham Road Sarsen Stone
Herongate and Lapwater Hall Main Drainage Scheme
High Easter Church Boulder
High Easter Sarsen Stone
Highest point in Essex
UfdG40 Highwood Gravel Quarry
BraG15 Hill Farm Sarsen Stones
TeG6 Hill House Sarsen Stone
RoG1 Hockley Spa Pump Room
RoG2 Hockley Woods
Holden End Sarsen Stone
BreG6 Holdens Wood Gravel Pits
Holland-on-Sea (former exposures of London Clay)
Holland-on-Sea Cliff SSSI
Hollow Lane Gravel Pit
EpPG6 Holyfield Puddingstone
Hornchurch Cutting SSSI
Hornchurch Dell
Howe Lane Sand Pit
RoG3 Hullbridge foreshore
Hunnables Gravel Pit
Hunter Avenue, Shenfield (site investigation borehole)
Ilford brick pits (site of)
Ilford Southern Relief Road (temporary excavation)
Ingatestone borehole (site of)
BreG7 Ingatestone boulders
Jaywick Foreshore (part of Clacton Cliffs and Foreshore SSSI)
MaG4 Jubilee Recreation Ground
Jupes Hill Landslip
Jury Hill
ThG10 Kennington Park
Kents Farm Sarsen Stone
Kingley Wood road cutting (A127)
Knighton Wood
Lakeside, West Thurrock
Lamarsh Railway Cutting
Lambourne Hall Boulder
BreG8 Langtons Gravel Pit
Larks Wood
Latton Ice Wedge Polygons
Leigh Cement Works (site of)
Leigh Spring (site of)
UfdG22 Leper Stone
Lexden Brick Pit (site of)
Lexden Gathering Grounds
CoG6 Lexden Springs Nature Reserve
Leyton Flats (Snaresbrook Park)
UfdG23 Limefields Pit
Lincewood (part of Langdon Nature Reserve)
ThG8 Lion Gorge (previously known as Lion Pit)
Lion Pit SSSI
Little Chishill Borehole (site of)
Little Dunmow Railway Cutting
Little Oakley Channel Deposit SSSI
Little Oakley coprolite pits (site of)
Little Oakley Red Crag pit (site of Harmers pit)
Littlebury Boulders
Littlebury M11 motorway cuttings
Lofts Farm Pit SSSI
London Clay fossils from the former Lea Valley gravel pits
EpG7 Lords Bushes
EpG8 Loughton Brook Meanders
Loughton Station Borehole
Low Street Pit, West Tilbury
Lucas Farm boulders
Luces Lane Sarsen Stones
Magdalen Laver Church Boulders
Magdalen Laver Hall Puddingstone
Maggots End (Pinchpools) Puddingstone
Maldon Cutting SSSI
UfdG24 Mallows Green Chalk Pit
Mammoth Cottages, Barking
Manuden Church Boulder
Mar Dyke Interchange Motorway Cutting
Margaretting railway cutting
Marks Hall Farm Sarsen Stone
Marks Tey Brickpit SSSI
Mashbury Hall Puddingstone
Maylandsea Foreshore (part of Blackwater Estuary SSSI)
Messing Churchyard Sarsen Stone
Midsummer Hill Boulder
ThG8 Mill Wood Sand Cliff
BreG9 Millennium Stone
Miller's Well (site of)
Mistley Heath (Elephant and rhinoceros remains)
TeG7 Mistley High Street Cobble Wall
BraG16 Moat Farm Sarsen Stone
Moreton Gravel Quarry (site of)
CoG9 Mount Bures Boulders
Nags Head Lane M25 motorway cutting
Nazeing Gravel Pits
BraG17 Nether Hall Farm Sarsen Stones
BraG18 Nether House Farm Sarsen Stones
Newney Green Pit SSSI
UfdG25 Newport Chalk Quarry
Newport Grammar School Borehole (site of)
UfdG26 Newport Puddingstone
UfdG27 Newport Road Cutting
Noak Bridge road cutting
BaG1 Norsey Wood Nature Reserve
North Stifford Church Puddingstone
Northey Island foreshore
Norton Heath Gravel Pits
EpG9 Oak Hill Pit
Ockendon Clay Plant (Grange Farm Clay Pits)
ThG11 One Tree Hill Brick Pit
Oozes Wood Puddingstone
ThG12 Orsett Cock Quarry
Orsett Depot Quarry
Osea Island foreshore
BraG19 Ovington Hall Sarsen Stone
RoG4 Paglesham boulder
Park Farm Boulder, Havering-atte-Bower
Park Farm Road Interglacial Site
Parsloes Park
Parsonage Farm Boulders
ChG6 Parsons Spring Gravel Pits
Patterned ground west of Clacton
Pickets Lock and Angel Road Pits (site of) (Lee Valley Arctic Bed)
Pinchpools Chalk pit
Pit north-west of Wanstead Park (site of)
Pitsea Mount (St Michaels Viewpoint)
Pledgdon Green Sarsen Stone
Pleshey erratic boulders
Pole Hill
Pound Farm Sarsen Stones, Gestingthorpe
CptG4 Pound Wood Nature Reserve
UfdG28 Priors Green Sarsen Stone
CoG10 Priors Pit
Purfleet Chalk Pits SSSI
Purfleet foreshore Chalk outcrop
Purfleet Road, Aveley SSSI
ThG13 Purfleet Submerged Forest
Purfleet, The Dipping (Church Hollow)
Quendon Church Sand Pit (site of)
UfdG29 Radwinter Road Chalk Quarry
Radwinter Road Sand Pit
Rainham Submerged Forest
CoG7 Rams Farm sarsen stone
Ray Hill
Rayleigh Brick and Tile Works (Down Hall Brickworks) (site of)
Red House and Stonehall Farm gravel pits (site of)
Ridgewell Erratic Boulders
CoG11 Ridgnalls puddingstone
River Ter SSSI
Rolstons Pit (site of)
Roots Hall Gravel Pit (site of)
Roslings Stone
Roxwell Road Kettle Hole
Roydon Ferricrete
Royston Road Gravel Pit
ChG7 Running Well
ChG8 Russell Green Gravel Pit
Saffron Walden Museum Boulders
Saffron Walden Waterworks Well
ThG8 Sandmartin Cliff
ChG9 Sandon Pit
BraG21 Sandy Lane Chalk Quarry
ThG14 Sandy Lane Pit (site of)
ChG10 Scrubs Wood Nature Reserve
EpPG10 Shales More Tufa Springs
Sheering Hall Farm Boulders
Shelley Sarsen Stone
Shenfield Brickworks Pit (site of)
CptG5 Shipwrights Wood
Shire Hill Cement Works (site of)
Shire Hill Clay Pit (site of)
Shoeburyness foreshore
Six Corner Plantation Sarsen Stone
Skitts Hill Brickworks
Socketts Heath Gravel Pit (site of)
Soken Wood
South Weald Puddingstone
ChG11 South Woodham Ferrers foreshore
Southend cliffs and landslips
BraG22 Spains Hall Sarsen Stone
Springfield Park, Hackney
Springfield Spring
St Chad's Well (site of)
BraG7 St Germanus Church, Faulkbourne
St Giles Church Puddingstone
MaG5 St Giles Leper Hospital (remains of)
St Helens Chapel Sarsen Stone
St Helens Chapel, Wicken Bonhunt
St John the Evangelist, Langley
St Johns Church, Great Clacton
St Johns Church, Stratford (church memorials)
SoG1 St Lawrence Church, Eastwood (boulder inside church)
St Margarets Church, Barking
St Margarets Church, Woodham Mortimer
St Marys Church, Ardleigh
St Marys Church, Great Bentley
St Marys Church, Lawford
St Marys Church, Steeple Bumpstead
St Nicholas Church, Little Wigborough
St Nicholas Church, South Ockendon
St Osyth Marsh (part of Colne Estuary SSSI)
St Osyth Pit SSSI
St Osyth Priory Gatehouse
CptG6 St Peters Church boulders
St Peters Church, Colchester
St Peters Well
St Swithins Pit (Carswell Pit) (site of)
Stanford Rivers Sarsen Stone
Stanford Warren Angling Lakes
ThG15 Stanford Warren Sarsen Stone
MaG9 Stansgate Foreshore
UfdG30 Stansted Airport Stone (Takeley)
RoG5 Star Lane Pits
Starr Restaurant Sarsen Stone
MaG6 Steeple Bay Foreshore
Stock borehole
ChG12 Stock Road Gravel Pits
BraG23 Stonebridge Hill Sarsen Stone
Stoney Lane
EpPG11 Strawberry Hill Pond, Epping Forest
Sunnymead Farm Gravel Cliff
EpPG12 Temple Cottage Puddingstone
Temple Mills Gravel Pit (site of)
Terriers Farm Well (site of)
Tesco Distribution Centre Quarry, West Thurrock
Thames Flood Barrier
ChG15 The Channels Mammoth
The Cliff, Burnham-On-Crouch SSSI
The Coppice
The Naze SSSI
UfdG31 The Pinnock Stone
The Ryes Sarsen Stone
BreG10 Thorndon Country Park North
Thorpe Bay brickworks (site of)
Thurrock College Sarsen Stone (current whereabouts unknown)
Thurrock Museum Sarsen Stone
Tilbury Docks
UfdG32 Tilekiln Green Brick Pit (site of)
ChG13 Till cliff at Channels
Tilty Churchyard boulders
ThG16 Turners Farm Gravel Pit
Twinstead Green Sarsen Stone
BraG24 Twinstead Sarsen Stone
Tye Green Kettle Hole
Tylers Common and Upminster Well
UfdG33 Ugley Green Puddingstone
Upminster Brickworks (site of)
Upminster interglacial sites (general)
Upminster to Grays Railway Line
BaG2 Vange Hall Brickworks Pit (disused), Vange Hill
Vange Mineral Well
Wades Hall Gravel Pit
Wakes Colne Green Sarsen Stones
Wallbury Camp Gravel Pit
Walthamstow Reservoir Excavations
Walton - fossils dredged offshore
Walton foreshore interglacial site
Walton former copperas works (site of)
Wanstead 'Parish Pit' (site of)
Wanstead Flats
Wanstead Park Grotto
Wanstead Spa (site of)
ThG8 Warren Gorge (previously known as Warren Pit)
Waterworks Corner (road excavations)
Weald Bridge Puddingstone (site of)
Weeley Borehole (site of)
Weeley Heath Bypass (excavations for)
UfdG34 Wenden Place Boundary Wall
MaG7 West Maldon landslip
West Silvertown Channel
West Thurrock Cemetery
West Tilbury Wells
CptG7 West Wood
Westcliff High School for Girls (games field)
UfdG35 Westley Lane Chalk Pit
Wethersfield Sarsen Stone
Whalebone Lane ice wedge polygons
White Colne Fishing Lakes
White Hall Sarsen Stone
White Hart Boulders
BraG25 White Notley Puddingstone
UfdG36 Whitehill Wood Chalk Pits
UfdG37 Wicken Water Boulders
BraG26 Wickham Hall Farm Sarsen Stones
UfdG38 Widdington Puddingstone
Willingale Sarsen Stone
EpG13 Wintry Wood Brick Pit
Witham Spa (site of)
Wivenhoe Gravel Pit SSSI
Wix bypass (excavations for)
BreG11 Woodcock Lodge Boundary Stone
Woodford medicinal wells (site of)
MaG8 Woodrolfe Creek Saltmarsh
Wormingford Church Pagan Stone
CoG8 Wormingford Mere
ThG8 Wouldham Cliff (Chalk Cliff)
ThG8 Wouldham Cliff (Involutions)
ThG8 Wouldham Cliff (Solution Pipes)
TeG8 Wrabness Brickearth Cliffs and Foreshore
Wrabness London Clay Cliffs (part of Stour Estuary SSSI)
Wrabness Railway Cutting
EpPG14 Wyldingtree sarsen stones
UfdG39 Yew Tree Inn Puddingstone

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