Breney Common is a

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and Site of Special Scientific Interest, noted for its

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characteristics, in mid

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, UK. It is located mainly in

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civil parish, with the Saints' Way footpath running through it. The common forms part of ''Breney Common and Goss and Tregoss Moors''

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. The nature reserve is owned by the

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/Cornwall Trust for Nature.

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. There are now three adjacent nature reserves Breney Common, Red Moor and Helman Tor which have been renamed as Helman Tor Nature Reserve.

References

Nature reserves of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1979 Special Areas of Conservation in Cornwall {{Restormel-geo-stub