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Uplyme Quarries
Formerly quarried
for
Blue Lias
and
White Lias
.
Uplyme Quarry Location map. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland from their website: http://maps.nls.uk/
Geological map and sections of the Uplyme Quarries. Information provided by GT. These graphics contain British Geological Survey materials © NERC 2018.
Home
About Us
Glossary
References and Sources
Work in Progress
Building stones
How we study building stones
Palaeogene
>
Heathstone
Sarsens
Cretaceous
>
Chalk
Flint
Upper Greensand
Chert
Wealden
Purbeck
>
Upper Purbeck (Purbeck Marble)
Upper Purbeck (Broken Shell Lst. aka Burr)
Middle Purbeck (Upper Building Stones)
Lower Purbeck (Cypris Freestones)
Jurassic
>
Lower Purbeck
>
Cypris Freestones
Portland Stone - Dorset
Chert
Kimmeridge Bay Dolomitic Limestone
Corallian
Cornbrash
Forest Marble
Fuller's Earth Rock
Inferior Oolite
Bridport Sands
Junction Bed
Blue Lias
Dorset Bricks
Non-Dorset Stone
>
Tertiary
>
Bembridge Limestones - Isle Of Wight
Cretaceous
>
Beer Stone - SE Devon
Jurassic
>
Bath Stone - Somerset & Wilts
Blue Lias of Somerset
Doulting Stone - Somerset
Ham Hill Stone - Somerset
Portland Limestone – Wilts (Chilmark)
Normandy
>
Pierre de Caen (Caen Stone)
Pas de Calais
Triassic: White Lias of SE Devon
Carboniferous
>
Carboniferous Limestones: Polished Black
Devonian
Building Stone Trails
>
Devon Trails
Somerset Trails
Stone Index
>
Stone Index A-B
>
Abbotsbury Ironstone
Bath Stone
Beer Stone
Bembridge Stone
Binstead Stone
Blue Lias Stone
Bridport Sandstone
Broken Shell Limestone
Burr
Burton Limestone
Stone Index C-E
>
Caen Stone
Carstone
Chert
Chilmark Lower Building Stone
Chilmark Main Building Stone
Chilmark Stone
Chilmark Upper Buiding Stone
Clavellata Beds
Cliff Stone
Clunch
Corallian
Cornbrash
Cypris Freestone
Stone Index F-O
>
Featherbed Limestone
Featherstone
Forest Marble
Flint
Fuller's Earth Rock
Grey Chalk
Ham Hill Stone
Heathstone
Inferior Oolite
Ironstone
Lower Chalk
Lower Lias
Melbury Sandstone
Middle Chalk
Middle Lias
New Vein
Osmington Oolite
Stone Index P-T
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Portland Cherty Beds
Portland Cherty Series
Portland Stone
Purbeck Marble
Purbeck Stone
Quarr Stone
Rag
Sarsen Stone
Shaftesbury Sandstone
Sherborne Stone
Tisbury Stone
Todber Freestone
Trigonia Beds
Stone Index U-Z
>
Upper Chalk
Wardour Lower Building Stone
Wardour Main Building Stone
Weald Clay
White Chalk
White Lias
Yeovil Stone
Churches
A-Z of Churches
East Dorset
>
Almer
Bournemouth
>
Talbot Village
Canford Magna Chapel
Corfe Mullen
Christchurch Priory
Cranborne
Edmondsham
Gussage All Saints
Gussage St. Andrew
Hampreston
Kinson
Knowlton
Morden
Pamphill
Poole St.James
Poole, the Spire Church
Shapwick
Sturminster Marshall
Tarrant Crawford
Tarrant Keyneston
West Parley
Wimborne St.Giles
Wimborne Minster Exterior Tour
Wimborne Minster Interior
Wimborne Minster: Purbeck Marble and Decorative Stone
Central Dorset
>
Bloxworth
Bradford Peverell
Cerne Abbas
Fordington
Hilton
Lytchett Matravers
Stratton
The Piddle Valley
>
Affpuddle
Alton Pancras
Bere Regis
Piddlehinton
Piddletrenthide
Puddletown
Tolpuddle
Winterborne Tomson
North Dorset
>
Batcombe
Belchalwell
Blandford Parish Church
Blandford St. Leonard's Chapel
Blandford St. Mary
Blandford Cemetery Chapels
Bradford Abbas
Chetnole
Child Okeford
Compton Abbas
Farnham
Folke
Gillingham
Hammoon
Hazelbury Bryan
Holnest
Ibberton
Iwerne Minster
Langton Long
Leigh
Mappowder
Margaret Marsh
Marnhull
Melbury Abbas
Melbury Bubb
Pimperne
Okeford Fitzpaine
Purse Caundle
Ryme Intrinseca
Shillingstone
Sixpenny Handley
Stockwood
Stourpaine
Tarrant Gunville
Tarrant Hinton
Tarrant Monkton
Tarrant Rushton
Todber
Winterborne Stickland
Winterborne Zelston
Woolland
Yetminster
South Dorset
>
Abbotsbury
Bindon Abbey
Broadmayne
Church Knowle
Coombe Keynes
East Holme
Kingston
Martinstown
Moreton
Portesham
Portland: Reforne
Steeple
Stinsford
Studland
Swanage
Upwey
Wareham St. Martin-on-the Walls
Wareham St.Mary
>
St. Martin's-on-the-walls
Winterborne Came
Winterborne Steepleton
Wool
Worth Matravers
West Dorset
>
Beaminster
Bothenhampton
Bradpole
Bridport
Broadwindsor
Burton Bradstock
Burstock
Catherston Leweston
Chelborough
Drimpton
Evershot
Eype
Loders
Monkton Wyld
Netherbury
North Poorton
Powerstock
St. Gabriel’s
Shipton Gorge
Lulworth Castle
Stoke Abbott
Symondsbury
Wootton Fitzpaine
Whitchurch Canonicorum
Quarries , Pits and Limekilns
Active Quarries
Abbotsbury area
Beacon Limestone Quarries
Inferior Oolite
North Dorset Corallian
Kimmeridge Bay
Portesham
Portland near Swanage
Purbeck near Swanage
Shaftesbury Sandstone
Uplyme Quarries
Upwey
Whiteway Hill Quarry
Winspit Quarry
Non-Dorset Quarries and Pits
Secular buildings
Athelhampton House
Blandford Town Hall
Cerne Abbas (village and Abbey)
Durweston Bridge
Ibberton Village
Kimmeridge Bay
Moignes Court
Non-Dorset Buildings
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