Brixham Town Design Statement 2011 - 2015 - Torbay Council

Upton Manor Rd Pair of gate piers at entrance to drive of Upton Manor
Victoria Rd Gun Battery immediately N of 'Round Top'
Appendix 2 Geopark
Windmill Hill Rd Windmill
25 Windmill Cottage
Berry Head to Sharkham point
Designations
SSSI, Proposed CGS/RIGS
Massively quarried limestone headland, a National Nature Reserve, stands 60 metres (200foot) above
sea level guarding the Bay. High sea levels during the Quaternary cut this high level marine platform
whilst later extensive marine caves developed. Within the quarry sandstone filled fissures (dykes) cut
into the limestone evidence of deposition in the Permian. The site provides an excellent viewpoint from
which to view Torbay.
GCR block / key theme
Marine Devonian, Mineralogy, Variscan structures of southwest England, Quaternary of south-west England, Caves and Karst.
Associated SSSI
Berry Head to Sharkham Point SSSI
Geological / geomorphological features
[Provisional] Marine Devonian: The coastline and adjacent disused quarries between Sharkham Point and Shoalstone Point on the north-west
side of Berry Head, show a key section through the changing Facies of the Middle Devonian ‘Brixham High', including stratotypes for the
Sharkham Point and Berry Head members of the Brixham Limestone Formation and the St. Mary's Bay Member of the Nordon Formation.
The Sharkham Point Member (early mid Eifelian) at its type locality includes slaty mudstones with thin beds of shelly crinoidal limestone
below, passing upwards through levels with interbedded tuff to thin bedded limestones with abundant stromatoporoids. The Berry Head
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