Nature Reserves

Most people in Kent live within a few miles of a Kent Wildlife Trust nature reserve. From ancient woodlands to meadows and wetlands, they’re just waiting to be explored.

Kiln Wood

Between Lenham and Sandway Lenham ME17 2HS

Ancient woodland with a wide range of ground flora.

Marden Meadow

Between Marden and Staplehurst on Marden Road Cranbrook TN12 0JQ

An excellent example of an unimproved hay meadow. Designated as Kent's Coronation Meadow.

Parking – £2.50 for the day, weekdays and weekends.

Nashenden Down

Nashenden Down Borstal, Rochester Kent ME1 3TQ

Created from an enormous arable field in 2009, this nature reserve is building an impressive species list as it matures into a vital part of the Medway smile living landscape.

Nemo-Down-konik-ponies-grazing-with-magpie-on-back
Barry Cook

Nemo Down

Nemo Down, Coombe Road Dover Kent CT17 0UB

Located next to an industrial estate on the outskirts of Dover, it is hard to believe a nature reserve is there when driving through the estate.

Oare marshes
Tim Horton

Oare Marshes

Church Road Oare Faversham ME13 0QD

Oare Marshes is an international importance for migratory, overwintering and breeding wetland birds, the reserve consists of grazing marsh (one of a few left in Kent).

Charged Parking – Weekdays: £2.50 | Weekends: £3.50
Kingfisher Galloway
Thinesh Thirugnanasampanthar

Oare Meadow

Oare Meadow, Faversham ME13 7TY

A meadow and low-lying bog.

Old Park Hill view of a footpath in the woodland with trees overhanging from above
©Ray Lewis

Old Park Hill

7 Whitfield Hill Temple Ewell Whitfield, Dover CT16 3BQ

Old Park Hill has a range of habitats but needs to be managed and restored to return it to its early 20th century character, when most of the site would have been open chalk land.