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. Rural Crimes Help us to help wildlife by reporting any incidents you witness.
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Thornden Meadow
O.S Map 179 TR 150645 : Nr Herne Bay 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 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
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
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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