Breedon Hill
UK Site of Special Scientific Interest
Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | Leicestershire |
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Grid reference | SK 404 232[1] |
Interest | Biological |
Area | 5.3 hectares[1] |
Notification | 1983[1] |
Location map | Magic Map |
Breedon Hill is a 5.3-hectare (13-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the northern outskirts of Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire.[1][2]
This is the largest area of species rich carboniferous limestone in the county. Herbs include bulbous buttercup, harebell, burnet saxifrage, musk thistle and hairy violet.[3]
The site is crossed by a footpath from the village to the church.
References
- ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: Breedon Hill". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
- ^ "Map of Breedon Hill". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
- ^ "Breedon Hill citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
52°48′14″N 1°24′07″W / 52.804°N 1.402°W / 52.804; -1.402
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- Allexton Wood
- Ashby Canal
- Bardon Hill
- Barrow Gravel Pits
- Beacon Hill, Hangingstone and Outwoods
- Benscliffe Wood
- Blackbrook Reservoir
- Botcheston Bog
- Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir
- Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry
- Breedon Hill
- Briery Wood Heronry, Belvoir
- Buddon Wood and Swithland Reservoir
- Burbage Wood and Aston Firs
- Cave's Inn Pits
- Charnwood Lodge
- Chater Valley
- Coalville Meadows
- Cotes Grassland
- Cribb's Lodge Meadows
- Croft Hill
- Croft Pasture
- Croxton Park
- Debdale Meadow, Muston
- Dimminsdale
- Donington Park
- Eye Brook Reservoir
- Eye Brook Valley Woods
- Frisby Marsh
- Grace Dieu and High Sharpley
- Grantham Canal
- Great Bowden Borrowpit
- Groby Pool and Woods
- Harby Hill Wood
- Holly Rock Fields
- Holwell Mouth
- Kendall's Meadow
- Kilby - Foxton Canal
- King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift
- Launde Big Wood
- Leighfield Forest
- Lockington Marshes
- Loughborough Meadows
- Lount Meadows
- Misterton Marshes
- Muston Meadows
- Narborough Bog
- Newton Burgoland Marshes
- Oakley Wood
- Owston Woods
- Pasture and Asplin Woods
- River Eye
- River Mease
- Roecliffe Manor Lawns
- Saddington Reservoir
- Sheepy Fields
- Sheet Hedges Wood
- Stanford Park
- Stonesby Quarry
- Swithland Wood and The Brand
- Terrace Hills Pasture
- Twenty Acre Piece
- Ulverscroft Valley
- Wymondham Rough
- Bardon Hill Quarry
- Beacon Hill, Hangingstone and Outwoods
- Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir
- Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry
- Buddon Wood and Swithland Reservoir
- Charnwood Lodge
- Cliffe Hill Quarry
- Croft and Huncote Quarry
- Dimminsdale
- Enderby Warren Quarry
- Gipsy Lane Pit
- Grace Dieu and High Sharpley
- Ives Head
- Main Quarry, Mountsorrel
- Newhurst Quarry
- One Barrow Plantation
- Shepshed Cutting
- Sproxton Quarry
- Tilton Cutting