Eridge Green is a biological

Site of Special Scientific Interest A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of ...

north-east of

Crowborough Crowborough is a town and civil parish in East Sussex, England, in the Weald at the edge of Ashdown Forest in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Royal Tunbridge Wells and 33 miles (53 ...

East Sussex East Sussex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England on the English Channel coast. It is bordered by Kent to the north and east, West Sussex to the west, and Surrey to the north-west. The largest settlement in East Su ...

. It is part of the Eridge Rocks nature reserve, which is managed by

Sussex Wildlife Trust The Sussex Wildlife Trust (SWT) is a conservation charity which aims to protect natural life in Sussex. It was founded in 1961 and is one of 46 wildlife trusts across the UK and the Isle of Man and Alderney. , it has 33,000 members and manages ...

. This is ancient woodland on clay with outcrops of sandstone which form cliffs up to ten metres high. Flora on the rocks include

Tunbridge filmy fern ''Hymenophyllum tunbrigense'', the Tunbridge filmy fern or Tunbridge filmy-fern, is a small, fragile perennial leptosporangiate fern which forms large dense colonies of overlapping leaves from creeping rhizomes. The common name derives from the ...

, the mosses ''

Dicranum scottianum ''Dicranum'' is a genus of mosses, also called wind-blown mosses or fork mosses. These mosses form in densely packed clumps. Stems may fork, but do not branch. In general, upright stems will be single but packed together. ''Dicranum'' is distrib ...

'' and '' Orthodontium gracile'' and the liverworts ''

Scapania umbrosa ''Scapania'' is a genus of liverwort The Marchantiophyta () are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells ...

'',

Scapania gracilis ''Scapania'' is a genus of liverworts in the family Scapaniaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): * '' Scapania aequiloba'' (Schwägr.) Dumort. * '' Scapania apiculata'' Spruce * '' Scapania aspera'' M. Ber ...

'' and ''

Harpanthus scutatus ''Harpanthus scutatus'' is a species of liverworts belonging to the family Geocalycaceae. It is native to Eurasia and Northern America Northern America is the northernmost subregion of North America. The boundaries may be drawn slightly ...

''.'' There is access from Warren Farm Lane.

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