Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment

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Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment is a 263.2 ha biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the northern outskirts of Folkestone in Kent. It is a Special Area of Conservation. An area of 205 ha is a Nature Conservation Review grassland site, Grade 2, and the 70 ha Asholt Wood at its western end is a Grade 1 woodland site. The reserve has a Geological Conservation Review site. 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.

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