Wenlock Quarry Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Shropshire Geological Guide and Geology Info

Overgrown, but still with lots of fossils to be found. Good exposures of the Wenlock Limestone yield a variety of Corals, Shells and Trilobites. The quarry is quite large with three main sections.

Wenlock Quarry is overgrown but still yields a large number of fossils.

(Suitable for Familes)

This location is suitable for familes.

Wenlock Quarry can be difficult to find, and it is also a fair walk. But parking is provided in a large car park.

Disused Quarry

Fossils are found either in the cliff face or quarry floor.

There are 'NO' restrictions to this location

Other Locations similar to Wenlock Quarry

Wenlock Quarry is an excellent location for corals, other similar locations for Silurian Corals in the Shropshire District are; Mortimer Forest, Shadwell Quarry, Upper Millichope , Llanymynech Quarry, and Wenlock Edge. In South West Wales, you can also find Silurian Corals from Marloes Sands. In Scotland, you can also find corals at St Monans

For trilobites, further locations in Shropshire are Vinnels, Mortimer Forest, Hillend, Wenlock Quarry, Hope, Betton Dingle, Upper Millichope and The Onny Trail. In South West Wales, you can also find Silurian Trilobites from Marloes Sands and Abereiddy . In scotland you can find Carboniferous Trilobites and tracks at Aberlady.

You can also collect carboniferous Corals from;Parkhouse Hill, Portishead and Weston-Super-Mare in Avon, or along the South West Coast, you can also collect Devonian Corals from Torquay along Hopes Nose and Daddy Hole and Castleton in the Derbyshire district..

For Corals from Younger period, the Coralline Crag at Ramsholt makes ideal collecting.