Lydden and Temple Ewell Downs

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Lydden and Temple Ewell Downs
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location	Kent
Grid reference	TR 275 453
Interest	Biological
Area	63.2 hectares (156 acres)
Notification	1986
Location map	Magic Map

Lydden and Temple Ewell Downs is a 63.2-hectare (156-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Dover in Kent. It is a Special Area of Conservation and Nature Conservation Review site. It is also part of the 78.5-hectare (194-acre) Lydden Temple Ewell National Nature Reserve and the 90-hectare (220-acre) Lydden Temple Ewell nature reserve, which is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust. It is in the North Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

This site has some of the richest chalk downland in the county. The invertebrate community is outstanding, including butterflies such as marbled whites, adonis blue and the very rare silver-spotted skipper.

There is public access to the site, which is in several nearby areas.

References

^ "Designated Sites View: Lydden and Temple Ewell Downs". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
"Map of Lydden and Temple Ewell Downs". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
"Designated Sites View: Lydden & Temple Ewell Downs". Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
"Kent's National Nature Reserves". Natural England. 2 August 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
"Designated Sites View: Lydden Temple Ewell". National Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
"Lydden Temple Ewell - The James Teacher Reserve". Kent Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
^ "Lydden and Temple Ewell Downs citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 15 February 2018.

51°09′43″N 1°15′07″E / 51.162°N 1.252°E / 51.162; 1.252

v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Kent
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Biological

Geological

v t e Kent Wildlife Trust
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Bromley	Downe Bank Hewitt's Chalk Bank Ruxley Gravel Pits
Canterbury	Bigbury Camp East Blean Wood South Blean South Swale West Blean and Thornden Woods Yockletts Bank
Dartford	Longfield Chalk Bank
Dover	Lydden Temple Ewell Old Park Hill Sladden Wood
Folkestone & Hythe	Park Gate Down Romney Marsh Spong Wood
Maidstone	Kiln Wood The Larches Marden Meadow Quarry Wood Tyland Barn Stockbury Hill Wood
Medway	Darland Banks Nashenden Down
Sevenoaks	Bough Beech Cowden Pound Pastures Fackenden Down Kemsing Down Polhill Bank Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve
Swale	Cromers Wood Oare Marshes Oare Meadow Queendown Warren Spuckles and Kennelling Woods
Thanet	Sandwich and Pegwell Bay
Tonbridge and Malling	Blue Bell Hill Burham Down Burham Marsh Holborough Marshes Ivy Hatch Westfield Wood
Tunbridge Wells	Brenchley Wood Collingwood The Gill Parsonage Wood

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