Croft and Huncote Quarry

Croft and Huncote Quarry is a 35.3-hectare (87-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Croft in Leicestershire.^[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.^[3]

Croft and Huncote Quarry

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Leicestershire
Grid reference	SP 511 964[1]
Interest	Geological
Area	35.3 hectares[1]
Notification	1986[1]
Location map	Magic Map

This site exposes igneous tonalite rocks 452 million years old, in the Ordivician period, and it helps to document the growth of continental crust beneath central England. This layer is unconformably overlain by Triassic mineralised manganese.^[4]

The site is private land with no public access.