All 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.

4 goats walking up a grassland bank at wouldham common, one on the far right looking directly into the camera lens
©Rosemary Holden

Wouldham Common

This reserve is not open to the public.

The reserve runs along the scarp slope and consists of a mosaic of habitats from chalk grassland through scrub to woodland. Please note this reserve is not open to the public.

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

Yockletts Bank

Yockletts Bank Gogway Near Petham, Canterbury CT4 5PZ Please Note: There is no parking for visitors. If parking on the surrounding roads, please park with consideration, without blocking narrow roads or gateways.

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.