Littlemore Railway Cutting is a 0.5-hectare (1.2-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the southern outskirts of Oxford in Oxfordshire.[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3]
The cutting exposes limestone and clay laid down in mid-Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic, around 160 million years ago. The deposit is part of the Stanford Formation, and the clay appears to have been deposited in a channel between coral reefs which then covered the Oxford area.[4][5]
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51°43′16″N 1°14′02″W / 51.721°N 1.234°W / 51.721; -1.234