Wouldham to Detling Escarpment
Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Blue Bell Hill | |
Location | Kent |
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Grid reference | TQ 753 611[1] |
Interest | Biological Geological |
Area | 311.2 hectares (769 acres)[1] |
Notification | 1990[1] |
Location map | Magic Map |
Wouldham to Detling Escarpment is a 311.2-hectare (769-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches from Wouldham to Detling, north of Maidstone in Kent.[1][2] Part of it is a Geological Conservation Review site,[3] and it is part of the North Downs Woodlands Special Area of Conservation[4] and the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.[5] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I[6] and it includes three Kent Wildlife Trust nature reserves[7][8][9] and a Local Nature Reserve,[10]
This stretch of chalk escarpment has woodland, unimproved grassland and scrub. Plants include the nationally rare meadow clary and there are several scarce invertebrates. There are many Mesozoic fossil fishes in an excellent state of preservation.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: Wouldham to Detling Escarpment". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ "Map of Wouldham to Detling Escarpment". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ "Culand Pits, Burnham (Jurassic - Cretaceous Reptilia)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Archived from the original on 12 January 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ ndsac>"Designated Sites View: North Downs Woodlands". Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Wouldham to Detling Escarpment citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 47, 118. ISBN 0521-21403-3.
- ^ "Blue Bell Hill". Kent Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 2018-01-03. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
- ^ "The Larches". Kent Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 2018-01-03. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ^ "Westfield Wood". Kent Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Boxley Warren". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
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- Alex Farm Pastures
- Alkham, Lydden and Swingfield Woods
- Bourne Alder Carr
- Brookland Wood
- Charing Beech Hangers
- Chattenden Woods and Lodge Hill
- Chequer's Wood and Old Park
- Church Woods, Blean
- Cobham Woods
- Combwell Wood
- Cowden Meadow
- Cowden Pound Pastures
- Darenth Wood
- Dover to Kingsdown Cliffs
- Down Bank
- Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay
- East Blean Woods
- Ellenden Wood
- Farningham Wood
- Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment
- Folkestone Warren
- Gibbin's Brook
- Great Crabbles Wood
- Great Shuttlesfield Down
- Halling to Trottiscliffe Escarpment
- Ham Street Woods
- Hatch Park
- Hoad's Wood
- Holborough to Burham Marshes
- Hollingbourne Downs
- Hothfield Common
- Ileden and Oxenden Woods
- Knole Park
- Larkey Valley Wood
- Lullingstone Park
- Lydden and Temple Ewell Downs
- Lympne Escarpment
- Lynsore Bottom
- Magpie Bottom
- Marden Meadows
- Medway Estuary and Marshes
- Northward Hill
- Oldbury and Seal Chart
- One Tree Hill and Bitchet Common
- Orlestone Forest
- Otford to Shoreham Downs
- Park Wood, Chilham
- Parkgate Down
- Parsonage Wood
- Peter's Pit
- Polebrook Farm
- Preston Marshes
- Purple Hill
- Queendown Warren
- River Beult
- Robins Wood
- Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes
- Scord's Wood and Brockhoult Mount
- Scotney Castle
- Seabrook Stream
- Sevenoaks Gravel Pits
- Sheppey Cliffs and Foreshore
- Shorne and Ashenbank Woods
- Sissinghurst Park Wood
- South Thames Estuary and Marshes
- Stodmarsh
- The Swale
- Tankerton Slopes
- Thanet Coast
- Trottiscliffe Meadows
- West Blean and Thornden Woods
- Westerham Mines
- Westerham Wood
- Wouldham to Detling Escarpment
- Wye and Crundale Downs
- Yockletts Bank
- Allington Quarry
- Aylesford Pit
- Baker's Hole
- Chequer's Wood and Old Park
- Dalham Farm
- Dover to Kingsdown Cliffs
- Dryhill
- Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay
- Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment
- Folkestone Warren
- Greatness Brickworks
- Hart Hill
- High Rocks
- Houlder and Monarch Hill Pits, Upper Halling
- Hubbard's Hill
- Lenham Quarry
- Oaken Wood
- Otterpool Quarry
- Pembury Cutting and Pit
- Rusthall Common
- Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes
- Sheppey Cliffs and Foreshore
- Southborough Pit
- Spot Lane Quarry
- Sturry Pit
- Swanscombe Skull Site
- Thanet Coast
- Tower Hill to Cockham Wood
- Wansunt Pit
- Wateringbury
- Wouldham to Detling Escarpment
- Wye and Crundale Downs