Breney Common

{{Short description|Nature reserve in mid Cornwall, England}}

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{{Use British English|date=March 2025}}

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Breney Common is a nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest, noted for its biological characteristics, in mid Cornwall, England, UK.{{cite web|title=Breney Common|url=http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1003183.pdf|publisher=Natural England|accessdate=29 October 2011|date=31 October 1986}} It is located mainly in Lanlivery civil parish, with the Saints' Way footpath running through it.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin {{ISBN|978-0-319-22938-5}}

The common forms part of Breney Common and Goss and Tregoss Moors Special Area of Conservation.{{cite web|title=Breney Common and Goss and Tregoss Moors|url=http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/protectedsites/sacselection/sac.asp?EUCode=UK0030098|publisher=Joint Nature Conservation Committee|accessdate=29 October 2011}} The nature reserve is owned by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust/Cornwall Trust for Nature.{{cite web|title=Helman Tor Nature Reserve (including Breney Common and Red Moor Memorial Nature Reserve)|url=http://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/nature_reserves/where_to_find_the_nature_reserves_1/helman_tor_breney_common_red_moor|publisher=Cornwall Wildlife Trust|accessdate=14 November 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405034241/http://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/nature_reserves/where_to_find_the_nature_reserves_1/helman_tor_breney_common_red_moor|archivedate=5 April 2013}}

History

This SSSI used to belong to the Red Moor–Breney Common SSSI, the two sites having split in the 1986 revision where both sites were expanded. In 2017 these two SSSI were joined to Belowda Beacon SSSI and to Helman Tor (a non-statutory County Geology Site, not a SSSI) to form the Mid Cornwall Moors SSSI.{{cite web|title=Mid Cornwall Moors|url=https://consult.defra.gov.uk/natural-england/mid-cornwall-moors/results/mcm-confirmation-citation.pdf|publisher=DEFRA|accessdate=16 October 2022}} There are now three adjacent nature reserves Breney Common, Red Moor and Helman Tor which have been renamed as Helman Tor Nature Reserve.

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