Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment

Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment is a biological and geological Site of [Special Scientific Interest] on the northern outskirts of Folkestone in Kent. It is a Special [Area of Conservation]. An area of is a Nature Conservation Review grassland site, Grade 2, and the Asholt Wood at its western end is a Grade 1 woodland site. The reserve has a Geological Conservation Review site.
A large area of chalk grassland has three nationally rare plants, and Asholt Wood has outstanding lichen flora. The site also includes Holywell Coombe, a key geological site displaying the sequence of mollusc fossils in the late Pleistocene and Holocene.
Part of the land within Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment SSSI is owned by the Ministry of [Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence].