Burham Downs and Angley Wood, Cranbrook, Kent
Fri 22 - Sat 23 July 2022
10.30
Saturday 25th June: Folkestone Downs
Leader: Alfie Gay (White Cliffs Countryside Partnership)
Meet and park at 10.00 at TR 2219 3846 on the roadside (south side) of Crete Road West, just off the junction with A260. Folkestone Downs is one of the largest areas of unimproved chalk downland in Kent with an extensive flora, evidence of ancient human occupation and fine views. Species include Squinancywort Asperula cynanchica, Horseshoe Vetch Hippocrepis comosa, and Small Scabious Scabiosa columbaria, Wild Cabbage Brassica oleracea, Woolly Thistle Cirsium eriophorum, Blunt-flowered Rush Juncus subnodulosus, Chalk Fragrant-orchid Gymnadenia conopsea and a good chance that Late Spider-orchid Ophrys fuciflora and Bedstraw Broomrape Orobanche caryophyllacea may still be around for us. A couple of miles in hilly terrain with some steep slopes.
To book, contact Janet John wfs.meetings@gmail.com or phone 01753 884490
Sunday 26th June: Dungeness
Leader: Owen Leyshon (Romney Marsh Countryside Partnership)
Meet at 10:00 in parking area by the Old Lighthouse main car park next to the End of the Line (Railway) restaurant at Dungeness Miniature Railway TR0885 1695. We will see specialities of the shingle foreland and nearby Long Pits including Sea Pea Lathyrus japonicus, Yellow-vetch Vicia lutea, Nottingham Catchfly Silene nutans, Small-flowered Buttercup Ranunculus parviflorus, Lesser Water-plantain Baldellia ranunculoides and Greater Spearwort Ranunculus lingua. We will walk on firm ground but some loose shingle at times, very little shade and slightly exposed.
To book, contact Janet John wfs.meetings@gmail.com or phone 01753 884490
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