Hope Farm, Peening Quarter Road, Wittersham. All records required for a KWT project at this damp grassland site.
Meet at TQ 8864 2888, parking in the farm yard.
Leader: Hannah Reid.
| Event Date | 02-06-2018 |
| Location: | Hope Farm, Wittersham |
Westernhanger Castle, Stone Street, CT21 4HX. Joint recording event in association with Kent Wildlife Trust.
Further details to follow.
Leaders: Kate Kellett and Dan Bennett.
| Event Date | 27-05-2018 |
| Location: | Westernhanger Castle |
Queendown Warren for botany and general recording.
Meet at TQ833632 in car park off Warren Lane.
Leader: Joyce Pitt
| Event Date | 26-05-2018 |
| Location: | Queendown Warren KWT Reserve |
Harrietsham meadow, all records required for this large grassland site.
Meet at TQ874529, parking in Marley Road next to the church wall.
Leaders: Sally Evans & Tom Sams.
| Event Date | 19-05-2018 |
| Location: | Harrietsham meadow |
Berry Court Wood, Lodge Hill Lane, Chattenden for botany and all records.
Meet at TQ754737 in Bridge Woods Field Archery Club’s car park.
Leaders: Sue Poyserand Doug Grant.
| Event Date | 12-05-2018 |
| Location: | Berry Court Wood, Lodge Hill Lane, Chattenden |
Smeeth Sandpit, all records required for this site that includes well-established grassland and lichen heath areas with scrub, some woodland and bare sand on the slopes.
Meet: at TR0904 4023, parking with permission on the driveway of ‘The Stables’ (next to Granary Court Cottage) in Granary Court Road.
Leader:Sue Buckingham
| Event Date | 05-05-2018 |
| Location: | Smeeth Sandpit |
Dungeness RSPB reserve for solitary bees and general recording.
Meet at TR067184 in the RSPB visitor centre car park (NB. Parking charge is £5 for non-members).
Leaders: Nikki Gammansand Geoff Allen.
| Event Date | 29-04-2018 |
| Location: | Dungeness RSPB Reserve |
Oldbury Hill SSSI and Ightham Common for bryophytes of acid soils and rocks. The site is steep and muddy in places.
Meet at TQ578558 in the National Trust car park.
Leader: Stephen Lemon.
| Event Date | 14-04-2018 |
| Location: | Oldbury Hill SSSI and Ightham Common |
Orlestone Forest for bryophytes and general recording in the northern part of this large woodland near Ashford.
Meet at TQ986348 in the nature reserve car park.
Leader: Jacky Langton
| Event Date | 08-04-2018 |
| Location: | Orlestone Forest, near Ashford |
Stock Wood near Chiddingstone for ferns and general records. Joint meeting with Kent Botanical Recording Group (KBRG).
Meet at 10.00 am in woodland parking area accessed via a gateway on the south side of Rectory Lane at TQ485439.
Leaders: Stephen Lemon and Sue Buckingham
| Event Date | 24-03-2018 |
| Location: | Stock Wood near Chiddingstone |
Annual General Meeting of the Kent Field Club.
Including the Annual President's Address
Plus short reports on other aspects of Kent’s wildlife:
Rosie Earwaker
'Back from the Brink: the Shrill Carder Bee Recovery Project’
David Johnson
'My ‘Wild Orchids of Kent’ project'
2pm – 5pm, Sunday 18th March 2018
Tyland Barn, Sandling, Maidstone, Kent ME14 3BD
Kent Field Club committee posts available at the 2018 AGM are:
Vice-Chair
Assistant Editor
4 x Ordinary members
If you are interested in taking on any of these posts please let us know either before the AGM or on the day.
The 2018 Bulletin of the Kent Field Club and the 2018 Field Visits Programme card will be available for KFC members to collect at the AGM.
Meet at TQ752593, Tyland barn by 2pm.
| Event Date | 18-03-2018 |
| Location: | Tyland Barn |
Indoor workshop on using Pageplus software, to assist with member’s projects and future atlas production.
Meet at TQ752593, Tyland barn by 2.30 pm until 5.30pm.
Leader: Ian Tittley
| Event Date | 10-12-2017 |
| Location: | Tyland Barn |
Sandwich Bay for a joint recording meeting with Shoresearch. A stroll along the strandline to investigate the variety of shells and other flotsam. This will be followed by an indoor session using KWT’s mollusc reference collection to help identify finds.
NB. If you are interested in this meeting please email and request to be added to the circulation list to receive updates of the meeting time and place.
Leader: Fiona White (07779 657573).
| Event Date | 09-12-2017 |
| Location: | Sandwich Bay |
Indoor workshop on using DMap software, to assist with member’s projects and future atlas production.
Meet at TQ752593, Tyland barn by 2.30 pm until 5.30pm.
Leader: Ian Tittley (07818 292936).
| Event Date | 26-11-2017 |
| Location: | Tyland Barn |
Cromers wood, Kent Wildlife Trust reserve, near Sittingbourne, for fungi and general recording.
Meet at TQ906604, keep left along the access track to reach a small area for parking outside the entrance gate to the wood. The access track is off Broadoak Road, signposted for Shooting Box Day Nursery. Leader: David Perrin.
| Event Date | 19-11-2017 |
| Location: | Cromers Wood KWT, near Sittingbourne |
Sandwich Bay for fungi and general recording on the dunes.
Meet at TR357590 at car park on Princes Drive.
NB. This is a toll road, please tell the gate keeper that you are with the Kent Field Club, surveying for Kent Wildlife Trust, as we hope to arrange a reduced toll charge.
Leader: Joyce Pitt (07986 989323).
| Event Date | 11-11-2017 |
| Location: | Sandwich Bay |
Sheldwich, St James churchyard and then walking through to the Lees for fungi and lichen recording.
Meet atTR011568, in car park adjacent to the church.
Leaders: Ishpi Blatchley and Joyce Pitt (07986 989323).
| Event Date | 04-11-2017 |
| Location: | St. James, Sheldwich |
Church Wood, West Kingsdown for fungi and general recording.
Meet at TQ579632 in the St. Edmund King and Martyr Church car park, accessed from Fawkham Road.
Leader: Joyce Pitt (07986 989323).
| Event Date | 29-10-2017 |
| Location: | Church wood, West Kingsdown |
The Kent Wildlife Conference, now in its seventeenth year, was created as a way for field naturalists to meet, learn about and discuss the county’s wild plant and animal species. This year's programme and registration form can be found here.
| Event Date | 28-10-2017 |
| Location: | University of Kent |
Pegwell Bay for a joint recording meeting with Shoresearch. A survey of the chalk shore below Pegwell Bay Caravan Park. A new site for Shoresearch.
NB. If you are interested in this meeting please email and request to be added to the circulation list to receive updates of the meeting time and place.
Leader: Fiona White (07779 657573)
| Event Date | 15-10-2017 |
| Location: | Pegwell Bay |
In place of our scheduled meeting at Mereworth Wood, Mario Tortelli will now lead a visit to Orlestone Forest in search of fungi.
Meet at 10.30am TQ986348 in the Forestry Commission car park.
Leader: Mario Tortelli.
| Event Date | 14-10-2017 |
| Location: | Orlestone Forest, near Ashford |
**CANCELLED** - due to MOD operations we are now no longer able to visit this site. A new meeting at Orlestone Forest has been put in it's place.
Mereworth Woods for fungi and general recording. We have special permission from the MoD to visit the restricted area of Mereworth woods.
Meet at TQ643554, parking in the MoD compound accessed through the gate from Seven Mile Lane.
Leader: Mario Tortelli (0208 699 0950).
| Event Date | 14-10-2017 |
| Location: | Mereworth Woods |
Bredhurst wood for fungi and general recording. We have kind permission from Bredhurst Action Group to visit this woodland and meadow site.
Meet at TQ797621 with parking in Hurstwood road that leads along to the church.
Leader: Trudy Fleming (01732 750774 / 07769 683362).
| Event Date | 07-10-2017 |
| Location: | Bredhurst Woods |
Dering Woods, near Pluckley, for fungi and general recording.
Meet at TQ900447 in the Woodland Trust car park off Smarden Bell Road.
Leaders: Alick Henrici and Joyce Pitt (07986 989323).
| Event Date | 30-09-2017 |
| Location: | Dering wood, Pluckley |
Longbeech wood, near Charing, for fungi and general recording.
Meet at TQ980509, the first gateway on the left along Monkery Lane, accessed from Faversham Road. Martin may redirect you on the day to parking further inside the wood for better access to fungi recording areas.
Leader: Martin Alison (07766 113422).
| Event Date | 24-09-2017 |
| Location: | Longbeech Wood, near Charing |
