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Dist:0.2km<br/>One of three huge pits in the area, unused for many years they have become a haven for wildlife, flora and fauna. An ancient burial ground was found here.
©Penny Mayes
Dist:0.3km<br/>This road runs between two of the three huge disused chalk pits - hence the straightness of it.
©Penny Mayes
Dist:0.4km<br/>One of three huge disused chalk pits in the area which now provide a haven for flora and fauna. The Isle of Sheppey is visible on the horizon.
©Penny Mayes
Dist:0.5km<br/>Disused Quarry on Highsted Road.
©David Anstiss
Dist:0.6km<br/>On Stockers Hill Road, looking north.
©David Anstiss
Dist:0.6km<br/>On the footpath signposted in http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/179030 I guess this was a gateway in the original fencing around the Woodstock parkland.
©Penny Mayes
Dist:0.6km<br/>This male holm oak (Quercus ilex) has changed from its usual dark green appearance because of the prodigious display of catkins. It stands by the boundary fence of what was once parkland to a "big house", beside Ruins Barn Road. The pinkish tinge to the hawthorn blossom has not come out well in the photo. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/179019 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/179023
©Penny Mayes
Dist:0.6km<br/>Quercus Ilex - this is a male specimen, the catkins are longer than the female. It stands by the boundary fence of what was once parkland to a "big house", beside Ruins Barn Road. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/179019 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/179030
©Penny Mayes
Dist:0.6km<br/>This male holm oak (Quercus ilex) has changed from its usual dark green appearance because of the prodigious display of catkins. It stands by the boundary fence of what was once parkland to a "big house", beside Ruins Barn Road. The pinkish tinge to the hawthorn blossom has not come out well in the photo. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/179030 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/179023
©Penny Mayes
Dist:0.7km<br/>Path No.ZU69 on Highsted Road, leads to Fulston Manor School on Highsted Road, Sittingbourne. Sittingbourne further increases in size, with several fields now turned into building sites. Although will they still sell them in the current 'credit crunch of 2008/2009??
©David Anstiss
Dist:0.7km<br/>
©Penny Mayes
Dist:0.7km<br/>Woodstock House was built in the early 1780s by Abraham Chambers. It was requisitioned by the Government during both world wars. Shortly after the estate became Shell property in 1945, land to the north of Broad Oak Road, and with it Woodstock House, was requisitioned by the Kent Farm Institute. For some time the building was used by Kent Fire Brigade as a practice site. Not surprisingly it became structurally unsound. Soon after this picture was taken, it was demolished.
©John Baker
Dist:0.7km<br/>Evidently where old fencing goes to die. Beside the footpath from Woodstock to Tunstall, just north of Ruins Barn Road.
©Penny Mayes
Dist:0.7km<br/>Leading past Kent Science Park.
©Oast House Archive
Dist:0.8km<br/>Path No.ZU30 leads to Fallowfield Road, Sittingbourne. Blocks in way on road edge, stop motorbikes and similar abusing the footpath or entering orchard on right.
©David Anstiss

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