Berengrave Chalk Pit is a
Local Nature Reserve in
Rainham in
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
. It is owned and managed by
Medway Council
Medway Council is the local authority of Medway in Kent, England. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined.
The council was created on 1 April 1998 and replaced Rochester-upon-Med ...
.
There is a small lake in a disused
chalk pit
Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton that had settled to the sea floor. Chalk ...
, and other habitats are scrub, woodland and reedbeds, which flood an area of willow carr.
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There is access from Berengrave Lane.
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References
{{Local Nature Reserves in Kent
Local Nature Reserves in Kent