
Hastings Conservation Volunteers
Where We Work
We work at a number of nature reserves and community open spaces across Hastings and Rother. Some we visit regularly, some only once in a while.
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Cliff End, Pett Level
Junction of Pett Level Road and Toot Rock. Park beside the road, near the white pole. The entrances are off Toot Rock, by the canal, or by a grassy disused tennis court on a track off the main road.
TQ894138 or TQ892136
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Flatropers Wood
Bixley Lane, off the A268, Four Oaks, Beckley. This is a rough track, but can be driven with care.
TQ861230
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Hooe Common
Park in Denbigh Road, near the junction with the B2095 Top Road, and take the public footpath down a grassy track, then across the fields.
Alternatively, Mill Lane, off B2095 Hooe Road, Hooe. The entrance is near the end of the lane, through a gate, but with little room to park. There is more room near the start of the lane, opposite the sports field gate.
TQ696104 or TQ694106
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Marline Valley
Queensway, St Leonards. There are several entrances, and we could be using different ones depending on where we are working. Park on the Queensway verge, in Napier Road, in the sports field off Ingleside or the blocked off entrance to the un-built industrial estate.
Rarely, we may use the entrance from the end of Delaware Drive.
TQ778115 (lower public footpath for the "big meadow"), TQ783122 (upper public footpath), TQ786123 (via the un-built Queensway North industrial eastate to the "pine tree field"), or TQ784128 (Delaware Drive)
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Powdermill Wood
Powdermill Lane, between Battle and Catsfield. There is a small car park at the North side of the road. A map in the car park indicates directions to the Trust's woodland.
TQ744143
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Rotherfield Nature Reserve
Off B2101 High Cross, Rotherfield. The gate is on the right on entering the drive to a house on the North side of the road. Please do not park on their drive. There is a small layby a short distance down the road.
TQ556291
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Wainwright Close
Junction of Wainwright Close and Sidney Little Road, in the Churchfields industrial estate, St Leonards.
TQ779115
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