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, near Canterbury in Kent, England. It features over fifty species of native British animals such as deer, badgers, wild boar, and brown bear.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Herne Bay and Sturry.
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.
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.
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.
East Blean Woods
- Category: forest
- Location: Sturry, City of Canterbury, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.3358° or 51° 20′ 9″ northLongitude
1.1395° or 1° 8′ 22″ eastOpen location code
9F3384PQ+8QOpenStreetMap ID
way 4634191OpenStreetMap feature
natural=woodWikidata ID
Q5327881
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