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quarries, have excellent views. Chalk Chalk views. excellent have quarries, oak, and ash trees. There are are There trees. ash and hazel oak, Ancient woodland (All walks) Other woodland (Walk E) 15 Marsh Mallow moth 23 A view from 662012. 01622 on: Team

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6 King Alfred’s Cakes 13 Kit’s Coty 19 Pyramidal Orchid Trust Wildlife Kent Join ECCLES 7 The 20 Bird’s-foot Trefoil reserves the About A229 Images courtesy of: 8 Great Spotted Woodpecker Burham Marshes (Walk D) 21 Common Spotted Orchid David Nicholls, Selwyn Dennis, Beth Hukins, Dan Attwood, Judith Shorter, 9 Stinking Hellebore 14 Marsh Mallow 22 Chalkhill Blue Steve Weeks, Helen Knell, Howard Blackie, D G Green, Les Foster, Anne Waite, John and Irene Palmer, .

Bushey Wood Walk A A note from the author I am a volunteer and education tutor with Kent Wildlife Trust. I have been a keen walker Ancient Woodland and interested in wildlife most of my life. This project has given me an opportunity to pull (1.2miles / 2km, flat) these threads together and encourage people to explore Kent and enjoy the animals and plants which live here. I hope you enjoy the walks. If you have any comments please let Wildlife Walks 2 3 4 5 me know at . Please see the contact details at the bottom of the page. Helen Knell from Tyland Barn Kent Wildlife Trust is developing a living map project where the public can contribute to our knowledge of the wildlife in Kent. If you would like to tell us about what you saw on your walk please go to: www.livingmap.org.uk 6 7 8 10 NEW A229 HYTHE 6

PLEASE NOTE: The numbers in the walk description match the numbers on the map 5 1 Cross the footbridge. 7 Turn left off the track just before the 7 10mph sign. Ignore the opening 8 4 2 Turn left to the side road, not the dual carriageway. before this. 9 3 Turn right on the road, pass a path on 8 Turn left between two fences along Ri TYLAND the edge of the golf course. 10 3 the left. ver Medw BARN 11 1 2 4 Turn left on the track. Ignore the 9 Keep on the path between the fences. private signs. 10 Just before the car park turn left off the 5 Keep straight on. path to meet the road. M20 ay Cobtree Manor Park 6 Follow the track past stables, ponds 11 Cross the road to the steps and the bridge to return to Tyland Barn. Golf Course and houses. Supported by Clay Wolf Parish Council Wood Wood Cobdown A229 Wood Key LARKFIELD Ancient Woodland Water Head Office: Public Green Areas Motorways Kent Wildlife Trust, Tyland Barn, Sandling, , Kent ME14 3BD ay Woodland A Roads Tel: 01622 662012 Fax: 01622 671390 [email protected] Roadside Nature Reserves Main Roads Ferryfield Registered Charity No. 2339992 A company limited by guarantee No. 633098. ver Medw Reserves Roads VAT Registration No. 974842378. M20 Recreation Ri Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) Train Line Wildlife Sites A20 Ground www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk Your living landscape. Your living seas.

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A20 A2045 M2 8 1 Cross the footbridge, turn left down the steps, turn right Walk). At the junction with footpaths turn right onto the Walk C Walk D on the road, pass a path on the left, turn left on the footpath across the field. Go through a green barrier Westfield Wood Burham Marshes A229 track (ignore the private signs). Follow the track through then turn right on a track and then left. Stay on the (3.7miles / 6km, steep hills) (9miles / 14.5km, flat) the gate for Great Cossington Farm. concrete road passing the disused works on your right. A2045 M2 1-6 are identical to Walk B (pink route) 13 Turn right up a steep bank. 2 a) Just before the houses, turn right through a kissing 10 At the start of the hill bear left off the road into a field A229 gate onto a faint track. and follow the right hand boundary to the top of the hill. (Now follow the Blue route numbers) 14 At the top of the hill turn right on a 11 b) At the end of the hedge on the right, turn right Pass a path on the right, go under the power lines and BURHAM Imptonfaint path along the ridge. fork right following the path along the edge of the field. ay 7 Turn right through the underpass. BURHAM Impton diagonally across the field to the stile to the right of the ay Wood Wood At the far end turn right to meet a track. Turn left. 15 Meet the at the A2045 houses. Cross the stile and go between two fences to 8 Turn left, following the 9 BLUE BELL A2045 ver Medw 8 HILL stone post, turn right. Ri the road. 11 Almost immediately turn left on a path through woods, BLUEBELLNorth Downs Way. Podkin Wood ver Medw HILL 16 Bear right at the fork. SNODLAND 3 At the road turn left and almost immediately right up passing a small pond and a pylon on the right. 50m Ri 9 Go straight on over the railway. Podkin 12 A229 steps and beside a garage. Cross the field heading for after the pylon, at the end of the wood, take the left Wood17 At the fingerpost turn left and retrace M2 SNODLAND 10 Enter the nature reserve, follow the house and cross a stile to the road. This is a busy fork along the edge of the wood. Do not go straight on your steps through the underpass. the byway. road – Take Care! to meet the wide track. The path bears right and meets Turn left on the road. Take the 2nd the road at a house. Brookland 4 Cross the road, follow the hedge through two kissing 11 Turn left off the trackA229 onto the path on the right over a stile, not the Lake M2 12 Go straight on, heading for the pylon. At the pylon bear North Downs Way. North Downs Way. 7 gates and over a footbridge. Follow the field boundary 13 to a gate, cross a track, go through a kissing gate. right, towards the trees. Turn left along the trees or use 12 Take the path left off the Then follow 8-15 from Walk B (pink route) Frith Wood Follow the side of a pond then follow the field boundary the parallel path through the trees. Pass another path

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er Wood Key v 5 Turn left on a wide track between a hedge and vines. 13 At the end of the wood turn right following the field Ancient Woodland Water Ri 6 Brookland 10 At the top of the hill turn right keeping the hedge on boundary with vines on your left. At the top of the hill, Lake Public Green Areas Motorways ECCLES Woodland A Roads 14 5 A229 your left. At the corner of the field bear left through a pass your outward route on the left, continue down the Roadside Nature Reserves Main Roads 14 11 Bushey hill to the kissing gate on the right. Reserves Roads Wood hedge then follow the path across the field to an alley Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) Train Line 13 between houses and the road. 14 Go through the gate, follow the boundary, past the Wildlife Sites 4 moat, through another kissing gate, cross the track, 15 6 Turn right on the road then left at the main road beside Frith 12 the Red Bull Pub. Take the first right (Eccles Row) through a gate. Follow the boundary to a footbridge and Wood 3 15 towards the school. At the end of the road carry straight through two more gates to the road, which is very busy. NEW ay A229 13 Key HYTHE 2 16 on along the path until the reservoir taking the right 15 Cross the road, cross the field, go past a garage and 14 Ancient Woodland Water fork, not through the blue gate. down the steps to the road. Turn left and immediately Westfield Public Green Areas Motorways Medw Woodland A Roads right into a narrow field to a stile. Bear right across the er Wood 7 Turn right through a green barrier towards the houses. v Roadside Nature Reserves Main Roads Ri TYLAND field to meet a faint track, turn left to meet a good track. 15 Reserves Ri Roads Turn left on the path opposite the pylon on your right Site of Special Scientific Interest ver(SSSI) Medw Train Line 1 BARN (this is a well used path but isn’t a right of way). At the 16 Turn right on the track, pass the houses then turn left on 16 Wildlife Sites AYLESFORD M20 ay ECCLES Cobtree Manor Park road turn right towards the church. to a path opposite the back of the 10mph sign, ignore A229 16 Golf Course Clay Wolf the opening before this. Turn left to follow the path 2a 2b 5 9 10 Wood Wood 11 8 At the church (worth a visit) carry straight on the road. Cobdown A229 Wood Just before the barrier, turn left on a path and follow between two fences along the edge of the golf course. Bushey LARKFIELD ay this (beside a wall) on top of a bank and beside the Just before the car park turn left to meet the road, Wood 12 Ferryfield ver Medw 17 M20 Recreation Ri cross the road to the steps and cross the bridge back to 11 A20 Ground river. Turn left off the bank back to the church. 7 3 8 10 Tyland Barn. 9 9 At the church, turn right on the road ( Valley 7 A229 188 199 A20 M20

A20 1 Cross the footbridge, turn left down the steps, turn right 12 At the path junction, turn sharp left going downhill past Walk E on the road, pass a path on the left, turn left on the the chalk pits on the left. 6 Blue Bell Hill, , Frith Wood, Kit’s Coty 4 A2045 track(ignore the private signs). (7miles / 11.3km, very hilly) M2 13 Turn left (waymarked) between two hedges to meet a 2 a) Pass the stables, where the track bends left, track, turn right to the road. NEW A229 A229 just before the ponds, turn right onto a track. HYTHE 14 At the road turn left to the junction, straight over to 1020 2a 6 b) Keep straight on through the gate then two 12 Bull Lane, cross a stile onto a path. Do not use the 11 kissing gates. BURHAM Impton

ay paved path. Cross two more stiles, head for the pylon, 5 Wood c) Turn right through another kissing gate and into 5 A2045 cross two stiles close together, keep going in the same BLUE BELL a small wood. Turn left, keeping the wood on your

ver Medw 10 2111 HILL direction keeping the houses on the right. Cross another 1222 4 Ri Podkin left, to the road. Wood SNODLAND stile and head for the houses. 2313 9 2b 7 3 At the road turn left, take the next path on the left 15 At the seat, cut back on yourself to the left, cross the Ri TYLAND A229 1424 3 M2 (North Downs Way). ver Medw BARN 1525 2 1 field, through a hedge into a field of vines. Keep the 6 13 8 7 4 Straight on at the path junction. hedge on your right and the vines on your left. At the AYLESFORD 5 At the road junction – Take Care – straight over and end of the hedge turn left on a track, straight on down M20 ay Brookland the hill, then turn right through a kissing gate. Cobtree Manor Park Lake take the path uphill (North Downs Way to Kit’s Coty). Golf Course 14 Clay 6 2c 11 Pass Kit’s Coty on the left. Climb the steps to the road, 16 Go through the gate, straight ahead following the Wood Wolf turn left along the pavement to the footbridge, cross the boundary, past the moat, through another kissing gate, Wood A229 7 Frith Cobdown Wood bridge. cross the track, through a gate. Follow the boundary to

Wood ay 6 At the road take the path on the right just past the bus a footbridge and through two more gates to the road Westfield LARKFIELD Walk B Medw er Wood which is very busy. ay v stop. Climb up through the woods to the road. Ri 15 Ferryfield Chalk Downland & Ancient Woodland, ver Medw 3 12 17 Cross the road, cross the field, go past a garage and M20 Recreation Ri ECCLES 5 7 Straight over through the wood. At the fork in the path (2.1miles / 3.4km, some hills) A229 down the steps to the road. Turn left and immediately A20 Ground 16 4 after 50m bear left. Bear left again when you meet 8 right into a narrow field to a stile. Bear right across the Bushey a path coming in from the right. Bear left again to a 1 Cross the footbridge. 9 Go straight on through four gates to Wood T-junction in the paths. field to meet a faint track, turn left to meet a good track. 2 Turn left to the side road, not the dual meet the track. 3 A229 8 Turn right following the edge of the wood. 18 Turn right on the track, pass the oast house then turn carriageway. 10 Turn right and pass the buildings. 17 left on to a path at the 10mph sign, ignore the opening 4 13 9 At the path junction just before the motorway turn left A20 M20 3 Turn right on the road; pass a path on 11 Turn left off the track at the 10mph sign. before this. Cross the stream then turn left to follow 11 (waymarked) to meet the road at Podkin Meadow. the path between two fences along the edge of the golf the left. Ignore the openingNEW before this. A229 A20 HYTHE 2 10 Turn right on the road, straight on at the junction to course. Just before the car park turn left to meet the 4 Turn left on the track. Ignore the 12 Turn left between two fences along the 18 cross the bridge. Turn left into the Bluebell Hill picnic road, cross the road to the steps and cross the bridge private signs. edge of the golf course. site, then turn right to follow the path along the top of back to Tyland Barn. 5 Turn right onto a track. 13 Keep on the path between the fences. Key the ridge. Go through a kissing gate, straight on where Ancient Woodland Water 5 Ri 12 TYLAND ver Medw Public Green Areas Motorways BARN 6 Go through the gate and follow the road. 14 Just before the car park turn left off the 1 the North Downs Way goes off to the right. Woodland A Roads path to meet the road. AYLESFORDRoadside Nature Reserves Main Roads 11 Go through the next gate on the right, then left on a 7 Take the first path on the left over a stile. M20 ay Reserves Roads Cobtree Manor Park 15 Cross the road to the steps and the Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) Train Line Golf Course sunken track between two fences going downhill and 8 Bear right into the wood. Clay Wolf Wildlife Sites Wood Wood passing another gate and notice board on the left. bridge to return to Tyland Barn.Cobdown A229 Wood LARKFIELD ay Ferryfield ver Medw M20 Recreation Ri A20 Ground

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