Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry

Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Cloud Wood
Location	Leicestershire
Grid reference	SK 414 213
Interest	Biological Geological
Area	63.3 hectares (156 acres)
Notification	1987
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. It is a Geological Conservation Review site. An area of 33 hectares (82 acres) is managed as a nature reserve by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.

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.

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

References

^ "Designated Sites View: Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
"Map of Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
"Breedon Cloud Quarry (Dinantian of Northern England & North Wales)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
"Cloud Wood". Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
"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″N 1°23′13″W / 52.786°N 1.387°W / 52.786; -1.387

v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire
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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire

Biological

Geological

v t e Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust
Blaby	Croft Pasture Narborough Bog
Charnwood	Cossington Meadows Lea Meadows Loughborough Big Meadow Mountsorrel Meadows Rocky Plantation Ulverscroft Wanlip Meadows Wymeswold Meadows
Harborough	Great Merrible Wood Launde Woods Tilton Railway Cutting
Hinckley and Bosworth	Altar Stones
Melton	Cribb's Meadow Holwell Reserves Stonesby Quarry Wymondham Rough
North West Leicestershire	Charley Woods Charnwood Lodge Cloud Wood Dimminsdale Kelham Bridge
Oadby and Wigston	Lucas Marsh
Rutland	Bloody Oaks Quarry Ketton Quarry Merry's Meadows Prior's Coppice Rutland Water

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