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Winchelsea Cutting
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Area of Search East Sussex
Interest Geological
Area 0.15 hectares (0.37 acres)
Notification 1990
Location map Magic Map

Winchelsea Cutting is a 0.15-hectare (0.37-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the southern outskirts of Winchelsea in East Sussex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

This site exposes the top two metres of the Ashdown Sand Formation and the bottom four metres of the Wadhurst Clay Formation, dating to the Wealden Group of the Lower Cretaceous around 140 million years ago.

The site is at the side of the A259 road.

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