Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | Cornwall |
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Grid reference | SX072613 |
Coordinates | 50°25′10″N 4°42′54″W / 50.4194°N 4.7151°W |
Interest | Biological |
Area | 89.1 hectares (0.8910 km2; 0.3440 sq mi) |
Notification | 1979 |
Natural England website |
Red Moor is a nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), noted for its biological characteristics, near Lanlivery in mid Cornwall, England, UK.
The 89-hectare (220-acre) SSSI, notified in 1979, is located mainly within Lanlivery civil parish, 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of the town of Lostwithiel. The similarly named hamlet of Redmoor is directly east of the reserve. [1] [2]
The nature reserve is owned by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust/Cornwall Trust for Nature. [3]
The river coursing out of the north of the site, a tributary of the River Par, was found to flow through tin-bearing gravels by the early mediaeval period. [4] This part of Red Moor was mined for loose tin until the end of the 19th century [5] and the oxidised metal is thought to give the moor its descriptive name. [4]
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. [5] It is adjacent to Helman Tor nature reserve.
There are two main habitat types within the site; the dry dwarf-shrub heath to the north and wetter marshy grassland, wetland heath and bog-land in the low-lying basin to the south. [5] The bog contains a variety of Sphagnum peat mosses - that disperse their spores from June to August [3] - bog asphodel ( Narthecium ossifragum), cottongrass ( Eriophorum vaginatum), and marsh cinquefoil ( Potentilla palustris). Other flora on the site include the climbing corydalis ( Ceratocapnos claviculata) and the royal fern ( Osmunda regalis). [5]
On the site can be found 13 species of dragonfly and damselfly, which include the scarce blue-tailed damselfly, a nationally rare species. Aquatic beetles are also present on the moor, the very scarce Hydrochus nitidicollis being one, as well as 2 uncommon spiders. [5]
Birds recorded on the site include the willow tit, tree pipit, European nightjar and the Eurasian sparrowhawk. [5]
Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | Cornwall |
---|---|
Grid reference | SX072613 |
Coordinates | 50°25′10″N 4°42′54″W / 50.4194°N 4.7151°W |
Interest | Biological |
Area | 89.1 hectares (0.8910 km2; 0.3440 sq mi) |
Notification | 1979 |
Natural England website |
Red Moor is a nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), noted for its biological characteristics, near Lanlivery in mid Cornwall, England, UK.
The 89-hectare (220-acre) SSSI, notified in 1979, is located mainly within Lanlivery civil parish, 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of the town of Lostwithiel. The similarly named hamlet of Redmoor is directly east of the reserve. [1] [2]
The nature reserve is owned by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust/Cornwall Trust for Nature. [3]
The river coursing out of the north of the site, a tributary of the River Par, was found to flow through tin-bearing gravels by the early mediaeval period. [4] This part of Red Moor was mined for loose tin until the end of the 19th century [5] and the oxidised metal is thought to give the moor its descriptive name. [4]
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. [5] It is adjacent to Helman Tor nature reserve.
There are two main habitat types within the site; the dry dwarf-shrub heath to the north and wetter marshy grassland, wetland heath and bog-land in the low-lying basin to the south. [5] The bog contains a variety of Sphagnum peat mosses - that disperse their spores from June to August [3] - bog asphodel ( Narthecium ossifragum), cottongrass ( Eriophorum vaginatum), and marsh cinquefoil ( Potentilla palustris). Other flora on the site include the climbing corydalis ( Ceratocapnos claviculata) and the royal fern ( Osmunda regalis). [5]
On the site can be found 13 species of dragonfly and damselfly, which include the scarce blue-tailed damselfly, a nationally rare species. Aquatic beetles are also present on the moor, the very scarce Hydrochus nitidicollis being one, as well as 2 uncommon spiders. [5]
Birds recorded on the site include the willow tit, tree pipit, European nightjar and the Eurasian sparrowhawk. [5]