A large wild area of ancient woodland in the Low Weald

The ever-changing wood, home to the Wilder Blean project where we have introduced European bison.

Part of an internationally important yew woodland, with steep chalky slopes occupied by a dense stand of yew overtopped in places by mature ash and beech.

This must-see site for orchid aficionados has ancient woodland on a chalk escarpment with a clay cap. The slope of the valley supports mixed woodland of ash, hornbeam and beech with a hazel…