List of local nature reserves in Kent
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Kent is a county in the south-eastern corner of England. It is bounded to the north by Greater London and the Thames Estuary, to the west by Sussex and Surrey, and to the south and east by the English Channel and the North Sea. The county town is Maidstone.{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Kent-county-England|title=Kent|publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=15 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422234912/https://www.britannica.com/place/Kent-county-England|archive-date=22 April 2018}} It is governed by Kent County Council, with twelve district councils, Ashford, Canterbury, Dartford, Dover, Folkestone and Hythe, Gravesham, Maidstone, Thanet, Tonbridge and Malling and Tunbridge Wells. Medway is a separate unitary authority.{{cite web|url=http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council/how-the-council-works/district-councils|title=District councils|publisher=Kent County Council|access-date=15 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027135727/http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council/how-the-council-works/district-councils|archive-date=27 October 2017}}{{cite web | title = Council and democracy | publisher=Kent County Council | url = http://www.kent.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/ | access-date =19 April 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070206185542/http://www.kent.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/ |archive-date = 6 February 2007}} The chalk hills of the North Downs run from east to west through the county, with the wooded Weald to the south. The coastline is alternately flat and cliff-lined.
Local nature reserves are designated by local authorities under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. The local authority must have legal control over the site, by owning or leasing it or having an agreement with the owner. Local nature reserves are sites which have a special local interest either biologically or geologically. Local authorities have a duty to care for them and can apply local bye-laws to manage and protect them.{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/protected-or-designated-areas|title=Protected or Designated Areas|date=9 April 2013|publisher=Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Natural England|access-date=29 July 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504145328/https://www.gov.uk/protected-or-designated-areas|archive-date=4 May 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/create-and-manage-local-nature-reserves|title=Local Nature Reserves: Setting up and Management|date=2 October 2014|publisher=Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Natural England|access-date=29 July 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704111109/https://www.gov.uk/create-and-manage-local-nature-reserves|archive-date=4 July 2015}}
As of May 2018, there are 42 local nature reserves in the county. Thirteen are Sites of Special Scientific Interest, five are Ramsar internationally important wetland sites, three are Nature Conservation Review sites, five are Special Protection Areas under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds, two are Special Areas of Conservation, one is a Geological Conservation Review site, one includes a scheduled monument, one is a national nature reserve, five are managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust and one is owned by Plantlife.
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=Other classifications=
- KWT = Kent Wildlife Trust
- GCR = Geological Conservation Review
- NCR = Nature Conservation Review site
- NNR = National nature reserve
- Plant = Plantlife, a wild plant conservation charity
- Ramsar = Ramsar site, an internationally important wetland site
- SAC = Special Area of Conservation
- SM = Scheduled monument
- SPA = Special Protection Area under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds
- SSSI = Site of Special Scientific Interest
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- {{cite book|editor-first=Derek |editor-last=Ratcliffe |title=A Nature Conservation Review|volume=2 |authorlink=Derek Ratcliffe |publisher= Cambridge University Press|location =Cambridge, UK |year=1977|isbn= 0-521-21403-3 }}
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