RSPB Cliffe Pools
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Overview
Cliffe Pools Nature Reserve offers a remote landscape with open horizons and skies - ideal for long summer walks and attracting spectacular numbers of wintering waders. A number of trails at varied lengths afford great views over the pools, the wildlife, and the River Thames running alongside. During spring and autumn migration, there is an excellent chance to see more unusual species, such as sandpipers and stints. Big flocks of ducks and grebes also gather at this time, and hen harriers, short-eared owls and other raptors are regular visitors.
About the area
Kent is home to the White Cliffs of Dover, an English icon that marks the point where the Kent Downs AONB stretches from the Surrey Hills down to the sea. Visitors can explore historic parklands, including Knole Park and Sir Winston Churchill’s former home at Chartwell, or beautiful nature reserves, such as the coppiced woodlands of Denge Wood and Earley Wood and the ancient fine chalk woodland of Yockletts Bank.
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Sandhole Barn
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