Belle Vue Quarry

Looking down into the quarry

Belle Vue Quarry (grid reference SZ014782) is a 3.2 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, notified in 1977.

It is used as a roosting site by Greater Horseshoe bats.

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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset

Abbotsbury Blind Lane Abbotsbury Castle Aunt Mary's Bottom River Axe Babylon Hill Batcombe Down Belle Vue Quarry Bere Stream Black Hill Down Black Hill Heath Blashenwell Farm Pit Blandford Camp Blue Pool Boulsbury Wood Bradford Abbas Railway Cutting Brenscombe Heath Bryanston Canford Heath Chalbury Hill And Quarry Chesil Beach Christchurch Harbour Conegar Road Cutting Corfe & Barrow Hills Corton Cutting Creech Grange Crookhill Brick Pit Cull-Peppers Dish Ebblake Bog Frogden Quarry River Frome, Dorset Giant Hill, Cerne Abbas Goathill Quarry Holnest Lambert's Castle Lions Hill Lodmoor Oakers Bog Pitcombe Down Poole Harbour Portland Poxwell Radipole Lake St Catherine's Hill Shillingstone Quarry Worgret Heath

Neighbouring areas Devon Hampshire Somerset Wiltshire

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