Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry

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Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Cloud Wood
Location Leicestershire
Grid reference SK 414 213 [1]
InterestBiological
Geological
Area63.3 hectares (156 acres) [1]
Notification 1987 [1]
Location map Magic Map

Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry is a 63.3 hectares (156 acres) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-east of Worthington in Leicestershire. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site. [3] An area of 33 hectares (82 acres) is managed as a nature reserve by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. [4]

Cloud Wood is an ancient semi-natural wood on clay. It has a very diverse ground flora, including pendulous sedge, yellow archangel and giant bellflower. The quarry is a nationally important geological locality, exposing a Lower Carboniferous succession deposited in shallow seas. [5]

There is public access to most of the nature reserve, but not to the quarry.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Map of Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Breedon Cloud Quarry (Dinantian of Northern England & North Wales)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Cloud Wood". Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2017.

52°47′10″N1°23′13″W / 52.786°N 1.387°W / 52.786; -1.387

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