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Marden Meadow (Kent)

Description: Marden / Staplehurst / Kent / England / Don't forget to bring your camera to this stunning nature reserve.

Newest Review: ... this modest-seeming claim is an overstatement. Only about a third of the meadow's 5.6 hectares (14 acres) are verifiably and entirely unimproved. The remaining two-thirds, more recently acquired, had been subjected to some "improvement" in the past, but are now being gradually restored to their original condition by benign neglect and natural seeding from the unimproved area. This ... more

... is the area beyond the thick hedgerow to your left, the most westerly part of the meadow. Let's walk that way - a path through the grass has been mown around the perimeter of the field - and take a look at it. Even as you approach, the colours on the ...more

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Marden Meadow (Kent): Some fields in Kent (1489 words)
by duncantorr - written on 27/05/08 (Very useful, 332 readings)
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As you drive past it along the minor road between Marden and Staplehurst, Marden Meadow doesn't look anything out of the ordinary. Indeed, drive past it is probably exactly what you will do, unless you happen to know in advance that it is there. No signs by the roadside proclaim its identity; no fingerposts beckon you to turn in through the narrow gap in the hedgerow that forms its entrance. Once inside, you will find just one explanatory notice-board standing beside the little area of grass that has been cordoned off for parking, with space for perhaps half a dozen cars. More often than not, yours will be the only one there. * What's to be ...

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