Chipping Sodbury Quarry overview

Located in South Gloucestershire to the north of Chipping Sodbury and Yate, Chipping Sodbury quarry produces around 1,000,000 tonnes of limestone aggregate a year. It supplies construction materials to projects ranging from major motorway repair schemes to local building works.

The 500 acre quarry sits on a ridge of limestone stretching north to Wickwar and Cromhall. 

Employing 18 people directly the quarrying operations are centred on Southfields, which is now fully worked out but contains all the stone processing Plant.

In 1977, a tunnel was constructed beneath Wickwar Road so that quarrying could begin at Hampstead Farm. The material dug at the Hampstead Farm excavation area is transported through the tunnel to the Southfields processing plant.

Stone is transported from the excavation area to the processing plant using a fleet of 4 Komatsu HD605 Ridged Dump Trucks, each capable of carrying 63 tons of material.
The Hampsted Farm workings are moving towards Brinsham Stream to the north and the Ridings to the south.

A new excavation area in Brinsham East has been opened during 2015. A further excavation area will be starting on the eastern side and progress west towards Yate Rocks in the next 5 years.

Following the demolition of the old Barnhill concrete batching plant, a new concrete batching plant was erected within the Southfields processing area in 2015.