Yockletts Bank
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Yockletts Bank is a stretch of woodland
situated in the North Downs
near the village of Petham
, Kent
. The site is a nature reserve, owned and managed by Kent Wildlife Trust
and is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest
, designated in 1951.
Woodland
Ecologically, a woodland is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade. Woodlands may support an understory of shrubs and herbaceous plants including grasses. Woodland may form a transition to shrubland under drier conditions or during early stages of...
situated in the North Downs
North Downs
The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent. The North Downs lie within two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty , the Surrey Hills and the Kent Downs...
near the village of Petham
Petham
Petham is a small village and civil parish in the North Downs, five miles south of Canterbury in Kent, South East England.The village church is All Saints Church, which was built in the 13th century but suffered from a fire in 1922 and had to be reconstructed...
, Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
. The site is a nature reserve, owned and managed by Kent Wildlife Trust
Kent Wildlife Trust
Kent Wildlife Trust covers the county of Kent, England, and is one of the largest of the 47 Wildlife Trust organisations in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and Alderney...
and is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest
Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon...
, designated in 1951.
Source
- English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 14 March 2008)