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.

Yockletts bank showing young woodland with open light coming down to the floor carpeted by many wildflowers
©Ian Rickards

Yockletts Bank

Yockletts Bank Near Ashford CT4 5PZ

This must-see site for orchid aficionados has ancient woodland on a chalk escarpment with a clay cap. The slope of the valley supports mixed woodland of ash, hornbeam and beech with a hazel understorey.