Northward Hill

Northward Hill is a 52.5-hectare (130-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest Kent.^[1][2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2,^[3] and is also designated High Halstow National Nature Reserve^[4][5] The site is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.^[6]

Northward Hill

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Kent
Grid reference	TQ 781 762[1]
Interest	Biological
Area	52.5 hectares (130 acres)[1]
Notification	1984[1]
Location map	Magic Map

This site has mixed woodland, scrub, ponds, grassland and bracken. It has the largest heronry in Britain, with more than 200 pairs, and insects include the scarce sloe carpet and least carpet moths.^[7]

There is access by public footpaths from High Halstow.