Reserve types: Wildlife Ark

This is a site with something to see in all seasons with a fantastic display of fungi and leaf colour in the autumn, jewel bright wildflowers in the spring and summer and silhouettes of birds of prey gliding across the winter sky.

• Chalk Grassland
• Nature Reserves
• Woodland

Bigbury Camp is an Iron Age hillfort in Howfield Wood, a short hop from the centre of Canterbury.

• Nature Reserves

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

Old Park Hill has a range of habitats but needs to be managed and restored to return it to its early 20th century character, when most of the site would have been open chalk land.

• Chalk Grassland
• Nature Reserves
• Woodland

Conningbrook Lakes is made up of a series of lakes, ponds, river, wet woodland and grasslands – creating a great place for a riverside stroll, and host to a variety of wildlife.

• Nature Reserves