Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment explained

Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment
Aos:	Kent
Interest:	Biological Geological
Area:	263.2ha
Notifydate:	1985
Map:	Magic Map

Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment is a 263.2abbr=offNaNabbr=off biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the northern outskirts of Folkestone in Kent.^{[1] [2]} It is a Special Area of Conservation.^[3] An area of 205ha is a Nature Conservation Review grassland site, Grade 2, and the 70abbr=offNaNabbr=off Asholt Wood at its western end is a Grade 1 woodland site.^[4] The reserve has a Geological Conservation Review site.^{[5] [6]}

A large area of chalk grassland has three nationally rare plants, and Asholt Wood has outstanding lichen flora. The site also includes Holywell Coombe, a key geological site displaying the sequence of mollusc fossils in the late Pleistocene and Holocene.^[7]

References

51.103°N 1.13°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Designated Sites View: Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment . Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 5 February 2018.
2. Web site: Map of Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 5 February 2018.
3. Web site: Designated Sites View: Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment . Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. 16 January 2018.
4. Book: Derek . Ratcliffe . A Nature Conservation Review. 2 . 46, 119 . Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK . 1977. 0521-21403-3 .
5. Web site: Holywell Coombe (Quaternary of South-East England) . Geological Conservation Review . Joint Nature Conservation Committee. 11 January 2018.
6. Web site: Holywell Coombe (Quaternary of South-East England) . Geological Conservation Review . Joint Nature Conservation Committee. 11 January 2018.
7. Web site: Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment citation. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 5 February 2018.