Wellacre Quarry, Chipping Campden

#10 among attractions in Chipping Campden

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Wellacre Quarry is a 12.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1974. It is within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the site was formerly known as Blockley Station Brickworks. The site is listed in the 'Cotswold District' Local Plan 2001-2011 as a Key Wildlife Site and a Regionally Important Geological Site. ()

Coordinates: 52°1'54"N, 1°44'18"W

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Chipping Campden United Kingdom

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Wellacre Quarry – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Broadway Tower, Hidcote Manor Garden, Sezincote House, Batsford Arboretum.

4.2 miW
3-floor Georgian folly with exhibitions
Broadway Tower, Broadway
107 min walk • Perched atop an ancient beacon hill in the charming Cotswolds, Broadway Tower is a striking example of a folly – a decorative, picturesque structure with no practical purpose – in Broadway, England. This intriguing Gothic tower, designed by James Wyatt in 1798, has...
3.6 miN
Meticulous paved Arts and Crafts gardens
Hidcote Manor Garden, Chipping Campden
93 min walk • Hidcote Manor Garden is a garden in the United Kingdom, located at the village of Hidcote Bartrim, near Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. It is one of the best-known and most influential Arts and Crafts gardens in Britain, with its linked "garden rooms" of hedges, rare trees, shrubs and herbaceous borders.
3.7 miS
Museum, History museum, Historical place
Sezincote House, Cotswold Water Park
96 min walk • Sezincote House is the centre of a country estate in the civil parish of Sezincote, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The house was designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, built in 1805, and is a notable example of Neo-Mughal architecture, a 19th-century reinterpretation of 16th and 17th-century architecture from the Mughal Empire.
2.1 miS
Park
Batsford Arboretum, Moreton-in-Marsh
54 min walk • Batsford Arboretum is a 55-acre arboretum and botanical garden near Batsford in Gloucestershire, England, about 1½ miles north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh. It is owned and run by the Batsford Foundation, a registered charity, and is open to the public daily throughout most of the year.
1.6 miSW
Church
Blockley Church, Cotswold Water Park
42 min walk • The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Church of England parish church in Blockley, Gloucestershire, England. The church is a Grade II* listed building.
3.2 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, View point
Dover's Hill, Chipping Campden
81 min walk • Dover's Hill is a 754 feet hill in the Cotswolds area of central England. The hill is 1 mile north-west of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire. Dover's Hill and the surrounding land is the property of The National Trust.
2.2 miNW
52°3'9"N • 1°46'34"W
Court Barn Museum, Chipping Campden
56 min walk • Specialty museum, Museum
1.8 miN
Church
Church of St Eadburga, Chipping Campden
47 min walk • The Anglican Church of St Eadburga at Ebrington in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England was built in the 13th century. It is a grade I listed building.
3.2 miSE
Memorial
Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford War Memorial, Cotswold Water Park
81 min walk • Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford War Memorial stands in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England, and is a memorial to those of Moreton and Batsford killed in the First and Second World Wars.
3.8 miN
Botanical garden, Garden, Park
Kiftsgate Court Gardens, Chipping Campden
97 min walk • Kiftsgate Court Gardens is situated above the village of Mickleton in the county of Gloucestershire, England, in the far north of the county close to the county border with both Worcestershire and Warwickshire.
3.6 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Ebrington Hill, Cotswold Water Park
91 min walk • Ebrington Hill is a hill in Warwickshire, England, which at 261 m is the highest in the county. It is situated between the villages of Ebrington, Mickleton and Ilmington on the Warwickshire and Gloucestershire border in the Cotswolds.