Fackenden Down

Fackenden Down is a 14-hectare (35-acre) nature reserve north of Sevenoaks in Kent. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust.[1] It is part of the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Otford to Shoreham Downs Site of Special Scientific Interest[2]

This site is mainly chalk grassland, with some woodland and scrub. There are a variety of orchids, and butterflies such as the brown argus, common blue and dark green fritillary.[1]

There is access from a road off Shoreham Road opposite Darenth Valley Golf Club.

References

"Fackenden Down". Kent Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
"Designated Sites View: Otford to Shoreham Downs". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 18 January 2018.

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Kent Wildlife Trust
Ashford	Ashford Warren and Hoads Wood Broadham Down Conningbrook Lakes Country Park Hothfield Heathlands Stone Wood Turners Field Wattle Wood
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