Goss Moor

Coordinates: 50°24′17″N 4°53′04″W / 50.4047°N 4.8845°W / 50.4047; -4.8845

View over Goss Moor.

Indian Queens power station

Goss Moor is a National Nature Reserve in Cornwall, England, located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south-west of Bodmin in the parishes of St Dennis, St Columb Major, Roche and St Enoder. It is the largest continuous mire complex in south-west Britain and consists of mainly peatland and lowland heath. Together with the neighbouring moor to the east, it forms the Goss And Tregoss Moors Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), as well as the Breney Common and Goss and Tregoss Moors Special Area of Conservation (SAC).^[1]^[2]

History

Between 1908 and 1916 steam powered suction and cutter dredges were used for the mining of alluvial tin on the moor. Drilling took place in 1908 and 1909 but the position of the boreholes and what they contained have been lost. Approximately 70 tons of tin concentrate was extracted and the dredges were later moved to Breney Common, Molinnis and Red Moor.^[3] The area was designated as the Goss and Tregoss Moors Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1988.^[1]

Geography

Goss Moor is located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south-west of Bodmin and is overlooked by Castle an Dinas to the north, and the church of St Dennis in the south. The River Fal rises on the moor at Pentivale and flows 17 kilometres (11 mi) to the English Channel at Carrick Roads.^[4] The A30 road once ran through the middle of Goss Moor. This was a major bottleneck for traffic and had been subject to a long running campaign for expansion which was strongly opposed.^[5] In late 2004 a decision was finally reached and the dual carriageway running to the north of moor was opened on 25 June 2007.^[6] Much of the existing road is now converted to a cycle lane which opened on 11 May 2008.^[7] The Atlantic Coast railway line between Par and Newquay also crosses Goss Moor.

Scarce or rare species

It is home to a number of scarce and rare species including:

plants: yellow centaury (Cicendia filiformis), marsh clubmoss.
invertebrates: small red and variable damselfly.
butterflies: Silver-studded Blue, Marsh Fritillary, Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Grizzled Skipper
moths: narrow-bordered bee hawk and double line.

A 2003 study found twelve different Poor fen sub-communities.^[8]

References

1 2 "Goss And Tregoss Moors" (PDF). Natural England. 1988. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
↑ "Breney Common and Goss and Tregoss Moors". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
↑ Bristow, Colin M (1995). "Joseph Henry Collins 1841-1916". Proceedings of the Ussher Society: 451-2. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
↑ "NCA 152: Cornish Killas Key Facts & Data" (PDF). Natural England. p. 23. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
↑ "A30 Goss Moor Briefing". Cornwall Friends of the Earth. Retrieved May 23, 2007.
↑ "Moor dualling plans get go-ahead". BBC. 2004-11-29. Retrieved May 23, 2007.
↑ "New Multi Use Trail at Goss Moor". Natural England. 2008-05-06. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-25.
↑ Southall, E. J.; Dale, M. P.; Kent, M. (September 2003). "Spatial and temporal analysis of vegetation mosaics for conservation: poor fen communities in a Cornish valley mire". Journal of Biogeography 30: 1427–1443. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00924.x. ISSN 0305-0270. Retrieved 2008-08-25.

External links

Biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

Summary	Summarised data for all sites (biological and geological)

Cornwall	Aire Point to Carrick Du Amble Marshes Baulk Head to Mullion Bedruthan Steps and Park Head Boconnoc Park and Woods Bodmin Moor, North Borlasevath and Retallack Moor Boscastle to Widemouth Brendonmoor Breney Common Bude Coast Cabilla Manor Wood Caerthillian to Kennack Carnkief Pond Carrick Heaths Carricknath Point to Porthbean Beach Carrine Common & Penwethers Chyenhal Moor Cligga Head Coombe Mill Coverack to Porthoustock Crow's Nest Crowhill Valley Dozmary Pool Draynes Wood East Lizard Heathlands Eglarooze Cliff Gerrans Bay to Camels Cove Godrevy Head to St Agnes Goonhilly Downs Goss and Tregoss Moors Greenamoor Greenscoombe Wood, Luckett Grimscott Gwithian to Mexico Towans Hayle Estuary & Carrack Gladden Kelsey Head Kennack to Coverack Kernick and Ottery Meadows Loe Pool Loggans Moor Lower Bostraze and Leswidden Lower Fal & Helford Intertidal Lymsworthy Meadows Lynher Estuary Malpas Estuary Marazion Marsh Meddon Moor Meneage Coastal Section Merthen Wood Minster Church Mullion Cliff to Predannack Cliff Nance Wood Newlyn Downs Ottery Valley Park Wood Penhale Dunes Pentire Peninsula Phoenix United Mine Plymouth Sound Shores And Cliffs Polruan to Polperro Polyne Quarry Porthgwarra to Pordenack Point Rame Head & Whitsand Bay Red Moor Redlake Meadows & Hoggs Moor Retire Common River Camel Valley and Tributaries Rock Dunes Rosemullion Rosenannon Bog and Downs St Austell Clay Pits St John's Lake St Nectan's Glen Steeple Point to Marsland Mouth Swanpool Sylvia's Meadow Talland Barton Tamar–Tavy Estuary Tintagel Cliffs Treen Cliff Tregonetha & Belowda Downs Tregonning Hill Trehane Barton Trelow Downs Trevose Head and Constantine Bay Upper Fal Estuary and Woods Upper Fowey Valley Ventongimps Moor West Cornwall Bryophytes West Lizard

Isles of Scilly	Annet Big Pool and Browarth Point Castle Down (Tresco) Chapel Down Eastern Isles Great Pool Gugh Higher Moors and Porth Hellick Pool Lower Moors Norrard Rocks Peninnis Head Pentle Bay, Merrick And Round Islands Plains and Great Bay Pool Of Bryher & Popplestone Bank Rushy Bay and Heathy Hill Samson Shipman Head & Shipman Down St Helen's St Martin's Sedimentary Shore Teän Western Rocks White Island Wingletang Down

Neighbouring areas Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Devon Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset

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