Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry
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| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
 Cloud Wood | |
| Location | Leicestershire |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | SK 414 213[1] |
| Interest | Biological Geological |
| Area | 63.3 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.
