The Blean complex forms a key part of the Living Landscape for the Blean; the largest concentrated tract of semi natural woodland in England.
Find out more about our partnership project with Wildart by reading the blog by Rob Turner, click here. You can also find out more about Blean here.
To read our May edition of the Blean Newsletter, please click on the PDF below:
Blean Forest School offers an exciting, ouotdoor programme of woodland adventure, with a focus on achievable tasks. To find out more download the leaflet:
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East Blean Wood NNR
National Nature Reserve
Near Herne Bay
OS Map 179 TR 194642
Post code: Hicks Forstal Road (east end) - CT3 4JS
Hicks Forstal Road (west end) - CT3 4JN
East Blean Wood NNR ( including Childs Forstal) covers over 122 hectares of ancient semi-natural woodland situated on poorly drained London clay, with a small area of gravelly soil in the south.
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Bigbury Camp
Scheduled Ancient Monument
Near Canterbury, between Harbledown & Chartham Hatch
OS Map 179 TR 113574
Post code: Bigbury Road - CT2 9BJ
Bigbury Camp is a pre-Roman hillfort in Howfield Wood. There is some evidence that Bigbury is the site of the first battle recorded by Julius Caesar during his visit to England in 54BC. The Trust is working to remove coppice trees from the ancient earthworks and is working with archaeologists to learn more about the site.
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West Blean & Thornden Woods
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Between Canterbury and Herne Bay
OS Map 179 TR 143633
Post code: Thornden Wood Road, Herne Bay (west end) - CT6 7NZ
Canterbury Road, Herne Common (east end) - CT6 7LF
Bleangate, Braggs Lane, Herne Common - CT6 7NP
Click here to watch 'Antics in Thorden Wood' a short video by Sharon Rouse.
West Blean & Thornden Woods form a vital link between East Blean Wood NNR and other important woodland to the west, including Clowes Wood, and the Blean NNR to the south. The Trust works within a partnership of other owners and managers of Blean woodland and local and national bodies to establish and maintain a continuous nature conservation complex – a real Living Landscape.
There is a new WildArt Trail at West Blean and Thornden Woods, to fund out more, download the PDF below:
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South Blean Woods
Local Wildlife Site Between Selling, Dunkirk and Chartham Hatch
OS Map 179 TR 081573 (centre) & TR 093571
Post code: Primrose Hill, Chartham Hatch, Canterbury - CT4 7NT
Rhode Common, Selling, Faversham - ME13 9PU
A2, Gate Hill, Dunkirk, Faversham - ME13 9L
South Blean is the most south-westerly part of the Blean complex and, although separated by the A2 trunk road, is an important part of the continuous woodland Living Landscape.
The reserve covers 320 hectares of mixed native deciduous woodland, conifer and sweet chestnut plantations, bog and heath. The more undulating topography of South Blean and variety of soils produces a greater variety of habitats than the Trust’s other Blean reserves.
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Thornden Meadow
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Herne Bay, near Greenhill
OS Map 179 TR 149645
Post code: Thornden Wood Road, Herne Bay - CT6 7NY
The reserve covers 10 hectares of formerly flower-rich neutral meadow on the northern edge of Thornden Wood. It is currently subject to an agricultural tenancy and is heavily grazed, having been damaged by past management.
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