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Welcome to the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding
Natural Beauty (AONB). Explore the site for information and
news about the area; why it is a landscape
of national importance, what is happening in the area, events
and activities, and the work of the Kent Downs AONB Unit and Joint
Advisory Committee partnership.
The Kent Downs are the eastern half of the North Downs
covering nearly a quarter of Kent, stretching from the White Cliffs
at Dover up to the Surrey and London borders. It is a diverse
and vibrant landscape with its dramatic chalk escarpments, secluded
dry valleys, networks of tiny lanes and historic hedgerows, ancient
woodlands, traditional orchards, locally distinctive villages, unique
and precious wildlife and many sites of historic and cultural interest
to explore. All these make up a landscape that
is such a valuable national asset that it was nationally designated
an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1968.

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