The Blean complex forms a key part of the Living Landscape for Blean, it forms the largest concentrated tract of semi natural woodland in England.
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To read our Autumn edition of the Blean Newsletter please click on the PDF below:
If you would like to learn more about the Blean, you can join our walk or join us at the event listed below:
Sunday 5th September
Volunteer Welcome Day & Guided Walk
10am – 3.30pm
If you have thought about volunteering but have not yet taken the plunge, come and join us and have a go in the morning. After lunch, we will take a gentle stroll around the woods.
Meet in the Thornden Wood Road car park. OS Map Ref: TR143633; CT6 7NZ.
Contact John Wilson on 07808 568821 or 01227 719506.
No booking required.
Saturday 11th September
Blean Woodland Festival
10am - 4pm, Strode Park, Herne, Herne Bay, Kent CT6 7NE
This is a free event (donation for parking). There is something for all the family, for those who already know and love our local woodlands, for those who would like to find out more and for those who are simply looking for an interesting and exciting day out, Strode Park is on the triangle 4 or 6 bus route. Click on the PDF below to see a poster for the event. For more information, telephone 01227 862015 or 01227 372519 or look online at www.theblean.co.uk.
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Thornden Meadow
O.S Map 179 TR 150645 : Nr Herne Bay
Post code: CT6 7N
Ten hectares of agriculturally damaged neutral grassland 1½ miles (2.4 km) south of Herne Bay on the northern edge of Thornden Wood.
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Blean, South
Location: OS Map 179 TR 095568 : Nr Chartham Hatch
Postcode: CT3 4NA
286 hectares of pine plantation, alder woods with springs, derelict acid bog, streams and ponds crossing Hunstead, Joan Beech and Denstead woods.
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Blean, West
O.S Map 179 TR 144633 : Nr Canterbury
Post code: (east end) Herne Common Road - CT6 7LQ
(west end) Thornden Wood Road - CT6 7NZ
West Blean (including Thornden Wood) forms an important part of a wider conservation jigsaw, linking the Blean Woods National Nature Reserve in the west with East Blean Wood in the east, and thereby establishing a continuous nature conservation complex, owned and managed by a partnership of local and national bodies.
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Blean, East
O.S Map 179 TR 194642 : Nr Herne Bay
Post code: (east end) Hicks Forstal Road - CT3 4JS
(west end) Hicks Forstal Road - CT3 4NA
Blean, East (including 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 Wood
OS Map 179 TR 095568 : Nr Canterbury Within Howfield Wood there is Bigbury Fort – a pre-Roman hill fort and scheduled ancient monument. Some historians think that Bigbury was the site of a battle recorded by Julius Caesar.
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