Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry

Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry is a 63.3 ha 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 ha 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.