Hadspen Quarry

{{Short description|Limestone quarry in Somerset, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2023}}

Hadspen Quarry is a stone quarry in Somerset, England. It is shown on Ordnance Survey maps for 1888–90, and may have been in operation for a considerable period before that.{{cite web | url=http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/stones_ahrb_2005/cfm/Public/details/QuarryDetails.cfm?QuarryCode=CARY | title=Cary Hill Quarries, Castle Cary | work=Stone in Archaeology Database | publisher= University of Soputhampton | accessdate=15 November 2010}}

It supplies natural stone walling throughout the West Country. The products include coursed, coursed random and random rubble walling. The stone is still split and dressed at the quarry located close to Hadspen house and garden in the small village of Hadspen, within the parish of Pitcombe just outside Castle Cary.

This golden colour limestone is seen in buildings in western Dorset and the surrounding areas, as can be seen at the Fleet Street site in Beaminster. Other products include name plaques, sawn ashlar quoins and capping stones.{{cite web | url=http://www.hadspenquarry.co.uk/index.php?module=Content&func=view&pid=7 | title=products | publisher=Hadspen Quarry Ltd |accessdate=15 November 2010}} The stone is an Inferior Oolite of the Garantiana Beds,{{cite web | url=http://www.sanhs.org/Proc%20Building%20stone.pdf | format=PDF | title=Somerset building stone – A Guide | publisher=Somerset Archaeology and Natural History | year=2002 | accessdate=15 November 2010 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110111194113/http://www.sanhs.org/Proc%20Building%20stone.pdf | archivedate=11 January 2011 }} dating back to the Middle Jurassic.Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Middle Jurassic, Europe)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 538–541. {{ISBN|0-520-24209-2}}.

In 2003 Hadspen Quarry Limited was formed to extract and manufacture the stone that is known locally as Cary Stone

In 2007 Somerset County Council agreed a proposal to extend the size of the quarry by {{convert|0.3|ha|acre}}.{{cite web | url=http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/council/board11/2007%20July%2031%20Item%208%20Extension%20to%20Allow%20Further%20Building%20Stone%20Extraction%20at%20Hadspen%20Quarry%20Castle%20Cary.htm | title=Proposed 0.3ha extension to allow further building stone extraction and new access road, at hadspen quarry, lime kiln lane, nr castle cary | publisher=Somerset County Council | accessdate=15 November 2010}}

in 2023 the business further diversified and opened a small glamping site known at [https://hadspenglamping.co.uk/ Hadspen Glamping]