West Blean Wood
West Blean Wood is a nature reserve in Sturry, City of Canterbury, England. West Blean Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Herne Common, as well as near Hicks Forstal.Places of Interest
Highlights include Wildwood Discovery Park and East Blean Woods.
Wildwood Discovery Park
Zoo
Wildwood Trust is a woodland discovery park in Herne, near Canterbury in Kent, England. It features over fifty species of native British animals such as deer, badgers, wild boar, and brown bear.
East Blean Woods
Deciduous forest
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Blean Woods is a 151.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Herne Bay in Kent. It is also a National Nature Reserve a Special Area of Conservation and a Nature Conservation Review site.
Herne Bay railway station
Railway station
Photo: Simply south, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Herne Bay railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the town of Herne Bay, Kent. It is 62 miles 58 chains down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Chestfield & Swalecliffe and Birchington-on-Sea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitstable and Canterbury.
Whitstable
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitstable is a town on the north coast of Kent in southeast England. It's famous for its oysters, and grew up in the 18th and 19th centuries as a fishing port, general harbour and seaside resort.
Canterbury
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Canterbury is a cathedral and university city in Kent, in the South East of England. Canterbury Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and hence the Primus inter pares of the primates of each national church in the Anglican Communion and spiritual leader and senior clergyman of the Church of England.
Herne Bay
Town
Photo: John Fielding, CC BY 2.0.
Herne Bay is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in South East England. It is 6 miles north of Canterbury and 4 miles east of Whitstable. It neighbours the ancient villages of Herne and Reculver and is part of the City of Canterbury local government district, although it remains a separate town with countryside between it and Canterbury.
West Blean Wood
- Type: Nature reserve
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Sturry, City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.3377° or 51° 20′ 16″ northLongitude
1.1094° or 1° 6′ 34″ eastOpen location code
9F3384Q5+3POpenStreetMap ID
node 1244958861OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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