WELCOME TO THE INAUGURAL MEETING of the FRIENDS of WICKLESHAM QUARRY!

Sunday 10 May at 7.00pm at Little Coxwell Village Hall. 

Let's restore pride in our beautiful & unique local environment - the National Character area of the MIDVALE RIDGE - starting with Wicklesham Quarry SSSI!

Support this new local group and become a Friend of Wicklesham Quarry to receive regular newsletters.

Faringdon’s globally unique cultural and scientific asset is under threat. 

A 29,570 sq m industrial/ commerical development ON TOP OF THE SSSI would obliterate this unique geoheritage site, and end 500 years of scientific research and teaching - AND IT WON’T STOP THERE.

If they can get away with building on top of a Site of Special Scientific Interest, Conservation Target Area with over 30 recorded Priority Species, located in the National Character Area of the Midvale Ridge - WITHOUT SUBMITTING A SINGLE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT OR ASSESSMENT REQUIRED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL'S VALIDATION lIST -  these developers intend to use this to justify building 2,500 HOUSES ON WICKLESHAM FARM – doubling the size of Faringdon south of the A420.

You can read the glossy brochure which touts plans for 2,500 houses here, on pages 242-403 :

https://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/01/JLP-Reg-18-Part-1-Responses-H.pdf

Together We CAN stop this! COME AND FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN HELP.  

Wicklesham Quarry is Faringdon’s internationally famous Site of Special Scientific Interest - its unique fossils are found nowhere else in the world. Isaac Newton put FARINGDON on the map when he sponsored their collection from Wicklesham Quarry! And Charles Darwin saved Mantell’s Faringdon Fossil collection for the nation.

Let’s restore pride in our beautiful & unique local environment - starting with Wicklesham Quarry!

 Come along on SUNDAY 10 MAY and BRING A FRIEND!

WICKLESHAM QUARRY NEEDS OUR HELP - AND SO DOES THE NATIONAL CHARACTER AREA OF THE MIDVALE RIDGE!

Contact: protectwicklesham@gmail.com