East Blean Woods

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.

Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Deciduous forest
Description: biological Site of Special Scientific Interest
Also known as: “East Blean Wood”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wildwood Discovery Park and Maypole.

Wildwood Discovery Park

Zoo

Wildwood Trust is a woodland discovery park in Herne. It features over fifty species of native British animals and located along the main road A291 between Herne Bay and Canterbury.

Maypole

Aerodrome

Maypole Airfield was a general aviation airfield located 2.5 miles south of Herne Bay, Kent and 5.2 miles north east of Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom. It was scheduled to close in January 2021, and is closed as of May 2021.

Church of St Martin

Church

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Herne Bay and Herne.

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.

Herne

Village

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Herne is a village in the civil parish of Herne and Broomfield, in Canterbury district, in the county of Kent, England. It is divided by the Thanet Way from the seaside resort of Herne Bay.

Sturry

Village

Photo: pam fray, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sturry is a village on the Great Stour river situated 3 miles northeast of Canterbury in Kent. Its large civil parish incorporates several hamlets and, until April 2019, the former mining village of Hersden.

East Blean Woods

Category: forest
Location: Sturry, City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.3358° or 51° 20′ 9″ north

Longitude

1.1395° or 1° 8′ 22″ east

Open location code

9F3384PQ+8Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 4634191

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

Wikidata ID

Q5327881

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