Kent Wildlife Trust manages a number of reserves nestled within areas of high urban development stretching from Ruxley Gravel Pits nestled within the Borough of Bromley to Darland Banks with its magnificent views across the Medway Valley. Rural Crimes Help us to help wildlife by reporting any incidents you witness.
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Downe Bank
OS Map 177 TQ 438609 : Nr Bromley
Post code: BR6 7LG
'Darwin's Landscape Laboratory' is the UK government's 2009 World Heritage Site Nomination to UNESCO. The Trust is playing a key role as owners of Downe Bank, Darwin's "Orchis Bank." Experts agree that Downe Bank was also the "entangled bank" which inspired Darwin's poetic last paragraph of the Origin of Species, which summarised his theory of evolution by natural selection. www.darwinatdowne.co.uk
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Fackenden Down
OS Map 188 TQ 531605
Post code: TN14 7RS
A west and south-west facing slope of the North Downs on the eastern side of the Darent Valley.
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Hewitt's Chalk Bank
OS Map 177 TQ 480629 : Nr Orpington
Post code: BR67SH
A four hectare site, chalk downland site. There is a large chalk mound on this reserve, formed after the excavation of a railway tunnel.
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Longfield Chalk Bank
O.S Map 177 TQ 598693 : Nr Dartford
Post code: DA3 7QL
A small urban fringe site of two hectares. Parts of the reserve appear to have been much disturbed in the past but have now been colonised with scrub and woodland.
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Kemsing Down
O.S Map 188 TQ 550594 : Nr Sevenoaks
Post code: TN15 6TG
About 16 hectares, including ancient woodland, on clay-with-flints on the more level parts, and secondary woodland and scrub with areas of chalk grassland on the south-facing slopes.
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Ruxley Gravel Pits
OS Map 177 TQ 474700 : Nr Orpington
Post code: DA14 5AD
Just south of the A223, ½ mile (0.8 km) west of Ruxley. The reserve consists of an 11 hectare complex of lakes, islands and promontories.
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