Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment

Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment is a 263.2-hectare (650-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the northern outskirts of Folkestone in Kent.^[1][2] It is a Special Area of Conservation.^[3] An area of 205 hectares (510 acres) is a Nature Conservation Review grassland site, Grade 2, and the 70-hectare (170-acre) Asholt Wood at its western end is a Grade 1 woodland site.^[4] The reserve has a Geological Conservation Review site.^[5][6]

Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Kent
Grid reference	TR 192 384^[1]
Interest	Biological Geological
Area	263.2 hectares (650 acres)^[1]
Notification	1985^[1]
Location map	Magic Map

A large area of chalk grassland has three nationally rare plants, and Asholt Wood has outstanding lichen flora. The site also includes Holywell Coombe, a key geological site displaying the sequence of mollusc fossils in the late Pleistocene and Holocene.^[7]

References

1. "Designated Sites View: Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
2. "Map of Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
3. "Designated Sites View: Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment". Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
4. Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 46, 119. ISBN 0521-21403-3.
5. "Holywell Coombe (Quaternary of South-East England)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
6. "Holywell Coombe (Quaternary of South-East England)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
7. "Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 5 February 2018.

 

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