Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment

Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment is a 263.2-hectare (650-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the northern outskirts of Folkestone in Kent.^[1][2][3] It is a Special Area of Conservation.^[4] An area of 205 hectares (510 acres) is a Nature Conservation Review grassland site, Grade 2, and the 70-hectare (170-acre) Asholt Wood at its western end is a Grade 1 woodland site.^[5] The reserve has a Geological Conservation Review site.^[6][7]

Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Kent
Grid reference	TR 192 384[1]
Interest	Biological Geological
Area	263.2 hectares (650 acres)[1]
Notification	1985[1]
Location map	Magic Map

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.^[8]

Part of the land within Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment SSSI is owned by the Ministry of Defence.^[9]