Tytherington quarry in Wotton-under-Edge, South Gloucestershire is a limestone quarry that supplies aggregate for ready-mixed and precast concrete products, as well as asphalt for use in road construction and maintenance.

The site is rail connected, enabling it to supply construction projects across the south, including Oxfordshire, London and the south east of England, where there are no natural deposits of limestone.

We extract around 2.25 million tonnes of aggregate a year from Tytherington quarry and the limestone is considered a nationally significant resource. The site is also one of the main suppliers of aggregates for HS2.

There are 16 employees and 21 permanent contractors based at Tytherington, plus many more in our supply chain and company support staff.

We also work in close partnership with a number of conservation bodies to protect and enhance biodiversity at the site and regularly host school and college visits.

About Tytherington quarry

Tytherington quarry began as a small site in 1872 and by 1880, was owned by the Tytherington Stone Company. A rail link was built in 1888, taking around 60-65 rail trucks, each carrying 8 tonnes of stone, every weekend.

Grovesend quarry on the site opened in 1902 to supply stone for the Royal Edward Dock at Avonmouth, moving approximately 850-895 tonnes weekly by rail.

Initially, stone could only be loaded on Sundays when there were no passenger trains – a restriction that lifted in 1944 when the line became freight only.

Tytherington Stone Company was brought by Teign Valley Granite Co, which in turn became Roads Reconstruction Ltd and, after liquidation in the 1930s, Roads Reconstruction (1934) Ltd. It has steadily been absorbed into larger companies: Amey Roadstone, ARC, Consolidated Goldfields and then, in 1988, Hanson, which became Heidelberg Materials UK in 2023.

The quarry was mothballed in 2008 due to the economic downturn but reopened in 2019 and now produces around 2.25 million tonnes of limestone each year.

Tytherington quarry is around 57 hectares and comprises of two separate carboniferous limestone excavations: Woodleaze and Grovesend, which are linked by a tunnel. Extraction in the area to the north of Tytherington Road, known as North Face, has finished and the site is no longer owned by the company.

In 2025, Heidelberg Materials secured permission from South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) to extend the quarry – deepening in Woodleaze as well as extracting limestone form under the existing soil store alongside Woodleaze. We have now agreed planning conditions with the council and operations in the extension area are expected to get underway in late 2026.

Biodiversity

The site includes a range of habitats including small pockets of species-rich calcareous grassland, native hedgerows, small amounts of semi-natural woodland especially in the railway cutting designated as a Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI), young and middle-aged tree plantations established along the motorway and roadside screen banks, and agricultural fields. Peregrine falcons can routinely be seen and have previously nested at Tytherington.

Due to its unusual geology, North Face – the worked out quarry to the north of Tytherington Road and no longer in Heidelberg Material’s ownership – is identified as a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for its fossils. Seven reptile species, including a crocodile and a dinosaur, have been discovered here and North Face is now recognised as a key site in studies of late Triassic vertebrates.
 

Site Biodiversity Action Plan - Tytherington Quarry 3.9 MB

Contact us

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email Tytheringtonquarryenquiries@uk.heidelbergmaterials.com or
call our freephone number 08001 601321.

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Operating times

Tytherington quarry is permitted to operate from Monday to Friday from 06:00 – 21:00, and Saturdays from 07:00 – 13:00, although site maintenance work can continue all day on Saturdays.

The asphalt plant has permission to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week in order to service road surfacing projects.

Blasting times

Blasting usually takes place two times a week at Tytherington quarry. We schedule blasts to take place, wherever possible, between 12:45 – 13:45 Monday to Friday.

To sign up to receive our free blasting notifications, please email us at: tytheringtonquarryenquiries@uk.heidelbergmaterials.com and advise which method you would prefer to receive the notification; text (provide a mobile number) and/or email.

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Liaison group

We are committed to open communication about our operations and hold regular community liaison meetings to discuss local issues, projects and future plans.

We are keen to broaden the local membership of our liaison group, if you represent a local group and would like to be considered for membership, please email us at tytheringtonquarryenquiries@uk.heidelbergmaterials.com 

Minutes from the previous four meetings can be viewed below.

Tytherington Quarry Community Liaison Group Meeting 22 January 2026 - Minutes 575.18 KB Tytherington Quarry Community Liaison Group Meeting 23 October 2025 - Minutes 587.36 KB Tytherington Quarry Community Liaison Group Meeting 24 July 2025 - Minutes 977.47 KB Tytherington Quarry Community Liaison Group Meeting 23 January 2025 - Minutes 459.19 KB

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Supporting the community

As a responsible operator, we want to play our part in supporting communities near our sites as well as protecting and enhancing the local environment.

We welcome planned school and college visits, host community open days and carry out a broad range of regular community support initiatives. In addition, local charities and community groups have benefitted from the donation of money, materials and time, through our employee volunteering days.

Our approach is to prioritise support for initiatives promoting:

  • Education, skills, and wellbeing
  • Protecting/enhancing the environment
  • Supporting biodiversity and sustainability
  • Promoting the community and heritage of the area

Assistance is prioritised to groups making applications from those based within a three-mile radius of our Tytherington quarry site. To make an application for funding, material donation and/or volunteer support, please tell us about your group and/or project, what type of support you are seeking and how your project’s aims dovetail with our support initiative goals set out above.

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Recent beneficiaries of our local support programme include:

  • Tytherington Parish Council – Heidelberg Materials made a £900 donation towards  the village’s Platinum Jubilee celbrations which helped cover costs associated with marquee hire, printing of raffle tickets and raffle prizes.
  • Wotton Community Sports Foundation is to receive 350 tonnes of type one stone from Tytherington for use in the upgrade of the car park at Wotton Community PARC.
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Securing future aggregate supplies

Tytherington quarry has been supplying much-needed building materials for nearly 100 years, but in recent years operations to access consented reserves have become increasingly constrained. To make the most of the quarry’s existing reserves, we applied for planning permission to extract an additional 6 million tonnes of limestone from two areas within its existing boundary. Following South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC) consent of this scheme we will soon be starting operations in these new areas within the quarry.

Looking ahead, we’ve always been clear that developing the quarry is likely to take place in phases. We are continuing discussions with SGC about the quarry’s long-term future and how it may dovetail with the council’s work on its Local Development Plan. Our current thinking is that we will bring forward proposals in the area adjacent to Itchington Road, which is already included in SGC’s current mineral plan. We’ll keep local people up to date with our plans and carry out public consultation before making any further planning submissions.
 

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We operate more than 300 manufacturing sites in the UK and employ over 4,000 people, offering a variety of careers and development opportunities.

These include a wide range of roles from production workers, plant operatives, engineers, technicians and drivers to sales, IT, finance and HR managers.

Our graduate programme for specialists in engineering, geology, marketing or a STEM related discipline offers a structured two-year programme based in a variety of locations across the UK.

We also provide various apprenticeships, giving you the opportunity to earn while you learn and the opportunity to secure valuable industry qualifications.
These include our three-year higher apprenticeship programme, which offers the first steps towards various careers in our sector from site supervisors to quantity surveying, and other apprenticeships for roles including plant operators and mechanical engineers.

For more on the range of opportunities at Heidelberg Materials UK, and our current vacancies, visit our careers website .

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