Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry facts for kids
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Cloud Wood
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| Area of Search | Leicestershire |
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| 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.
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