Honley Station Cutting
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Condition (Natural England)
| Unit | Feature | Condition | Area (ha) | Assessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE144126 | — | Unfavourable Declining | 0.51 | 2022-04-25 |
| SE145125 | — | Unfavourable Declining | 0.51 | 2022-04-25 |
Description
Area, 0.4 hectares 1.0 ac Description The rock outcrops are within the eastern side of a railway cutting at Honley, on the southern outskirts of Huddersfield. This is a classic exposure for the sequence between the soft Bed Coal and the Honley Marine Band in the Pennines area and yields abundant non marine bivalves of the Carbonicola falax C. protea Biozone. It has been the subject of intensive study and may be regarded as the type section for this zonal interval. Evidence of the Springwood Marine Bank is represented by a band containing Lingula shells, but the Holbrook Marine Band has not been located. It is a site of great importance for understanding this part of the lower Westphalian A and is significant to geologists working in most of the coalfields in northern and central Europe and in eastern North America.