Blean

Blean is a village and civil parish in the Canterbury district of Kent, England. The civil parish is large and is mostly woodland, much of which is ancient woodland.

Photo: Thomas Grant, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Village with 1,540 residents
Description: village in Kent, England, UK
Also known as: “Blean, Kent”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Cosmus and St Damian and Church Woods.

Church of St Cosmus and St Damian

Church

Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church Woods

Forest

Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church Woods, Blean is a 526.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Canterbury in Kent. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, a National Nature Reserve, a Special Area of Conservation and part of it is a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve.

Church of St. Gabriel

Church

Photo: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Honey Hill and Denstroude.

Honey Hill

Hamlet

Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Honey Hill is a hamlet on the A290 road, in the civil parish of Blean, in the Canterbury district, in the county of Kent, England.

Denstroude

Hamlet

Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Denstroude is a dispersed hamlet located to the west of the A290 road north of Canterbury in Kent, England. It is a collection of houses and farms, one of which takes its name from the hamlet; the other being Parsonage Farm, although there is no church nearby.