Church Woods, Blean

Church Woods, Blean is a 526.7-hectare (1,302-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Canterbury in Kent.^[1][2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I,^[3] a National Nature Reserve,^[4][5] a Special Area of Conservation^[6] and part of it is a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve.^[7]

Church Woods, Blean

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Kent
Grid reference	TR 103 601[1]
Interest	Biological
Area	526.7 hectares (1,302 acres)[1]
Notification	2000[1]
Location map	Magic Map

This broadleaved coppice with standards wood has a diverse range of trees, a rich ground flora, a wide variety of birds and many uncommon invertebrates, including the nationally rare heath fritillary butterfly.^[8]

There is public access to the site and it is crossed by footpaths.