Facilities: Parking

This Ancient semi-natural woodland is recognised as a site of international importance for wildlife.

• Nature Reserves
• Woodland

Rich in flora and fauna, this important reserve contains Kent's last four valley bogs and one of its few remaining fragments of open heath.

• Heathland
• Nature Reserves

Sweeping downland slopes packed with wildlife on the outskirts of Dover.

• Chalk Grassland
• Nature Reserves

An excellent example of an unimproved hay meadow. Designated as Kent's Coronation Meadow.

• Meadows
• Nature Reserves

Oare Marshes is an international importance for migratory, overwintering and breeding wetland birds, the reserve consists of grazing marsh (one of a few left in Kent).

• Overwintering birds

Listen to the rolling waves on the sand and shingle, breathe in the saline scents of the saltmarsh, and watch the wonderful wildlife this very important and sensitive National Nature Reserve has to offer.

• Beach
• Marine
• Nature Reserves
• Pegwell Bay

The Visitor Centre is temporarily closed for refurbishment and opening in Summer 2025. This 73 hectare site was the first example of a gravel pit site being developed for the purpose of nature conservation. It is home to a diverse range of plants, fungi, birds and dragonflies & damselflies.

• Nature Reserves
• Visitor Centres

The ever-changing wood, home to the Wilder Blean project where we have introduced European bison.

• Bison
• Nature Reserves
• Woodland

'Relic' wood pasture, veteran trees and nationally rare acid grassland make up this site squeezed between major roads, railway lines, and the rapid urban development of Ashford.

• Nature Reserves
• Woodland

Whether standing above the clouds on a winter's morning or watching the last rays of sun striking reds, purple and gold across the valley, there is always something fantastic about this place.

• Common bird's-foot-trefoil
• Fairy flax
• Reptiles