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Wildlife Walks Fromtyland Barn A2045 M2 A229 BURHAM Impton ay Wood What to look for on the walks... A2045 BLUEBELL ver Medw 1HILL 2 3 4 14 15 16 17 Ri Podkin Wood SNODLAND 5 6 A229 8 18 19 20 21 M2 7 9 10 22 24 orchids. man and fly bee, with blue butterflies can be spotted here, along along here, spotted be can butterflies blue marbled white, chalkhill blue and adonis adonis and blue chalkhill white, marbled specific plants and animals. Already, Already, animals. and plants specific Brookland downland chalk more encouraging by there that live in the woodland. the in live that Lake 13 23 25 26 habitats woodland and grassland chalk the sites for a wide variety of birds and dormice dormice and birds of variety wide a for sites managed by Kent Wildlife Trust to improve improve to Trust Wildlife Kent by managed and slow worms. The scrub provides nesting nesting provides scrub The worms. slow and of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). It is is It (SSSI). Interest Scientific Special of the plants. The area is also home to adders adders to home also is area The plants. the This picnic site and viewpoint is a Site Site a is viewpoint and site picnic This Caterpillars and other insect larvae live on on live larvae insect other and Caterpillars Hill Bell Blue The reserve has many species of orchid. orchid. of species many has reserve The wild flowers adapted to chalk grassland. grassland. chalk to adapted flowers wild 11 12 27 28 them. on live can birds and beetles vigorous plants from crowding out the the out crowding from plants vigorous Frith fungi, that so naturally die to left mostly as scrub control. This stops taller and more more and taller stops This control. scrub as Wood are trees The here. live mammals small sheep, cattle, horses and rabbits as well well as rabbits and horses cattle, sheep, chalky soil. Several types of butterfly and and butterfly of types Several soil. chalky grassland is managed using grazing by by grazing using managed is grassland ay like which some and flowers woodland quarries, have excellent views. Chalk Chalk views. excellent have quarries, oak, hazel 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 Blue Bell Hill 662012. 01622 on: Team and scrub, with two large disused chalk chalk disused large two with scrub, and North Downs, you can find yew, whitebeam, whitebeam, yew, find can you Downs, North 1 Dog Violet 10 Bluebells 16 Reed Warbler 24 Slow Worm Membership the contact or www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk at: website the visit please join, to Westfield Medw These areas of chalk downland, woodland woodland downland, chalk of areas These In these woods, on a steep slope of the the of slope steep a on woods, these In 2 Holly 11 Dormouse box 25 Wild Thyme or details more For wildlife. Kent’s for fighting continue to us enable will subscription Your er Wood Down Burham Wood Westfield v 3 Herb Paris 12 Dormouse Chalk Downland (Walk E) 26 Bee Orchid Trust Wildlife Kent of member a becoming by support your Give Ri 4 Westfield Wood (Walk C) 17 Kestrel 27 Adder 5 Speckled Wood Butterfly Walk E 18 Kidney Vetch 28 Skylark you can visit on the walks the on visit can you 6 King Alfred’s Cakes 13 Kit’s Coty 19 Pyramidal Orchid Trust Wildlife Kent Join ECCLES 7 The White Horse Stone 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, Kent Wildlife Trust. 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 Tyland Barn. 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 AYLESFORD 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 Boxley Parish Council Wood Wood Cobdown A229 Wood Key LARKFIELD Ancient Woodland Water Head Office: Public Green Areas Motorways Kent Wildlife Trust, Tyland Barn, Sandling, Maidstone, 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. A229 A20 M20 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 North Downs Way 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.
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