
Notable Sites
While mosses and liverworts can be found in a large variety of habitats, if you are looking for good places to find them in your local area then easy starting points would be walls and gravestones in churyards, woods (particularly the bases of trees) and areas of mash or bogland. During her life Jan surveyed countless sites across Kent, however compiled below is a list of sites in which particularly rare, either nationwide or in the South East specifically, and notable species were found.
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Ashford
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Comb Wood - Campyliadelphus elodes.
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Foxden Wood - Dicranum flagellare.
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Ham Street Woods - Disculium nudum.
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Long Beach North Wood - Scapania irrugua.
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Orelstone Forest - Loeskeobryum brevirostre, Riccia rhenana, Rhytidiadelphus loreus, Sanionia uncinata, Scapania nemorea, Ulota coarctata.
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Priory Wood - Dicranella rufescens.
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Roundshill Park Wood and Sissinghurst Castle - Dicranella refescens, Hypnum lindberghii, Pleurozium schreberi, Pohlia lescuriana, Scapania nemorea.
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St Mary Churchyard in Crundale - Leptobarbula berica.
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St Mary's Churchyard in Stone-in-Oxney - Leptobarbula berica.
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St Mary the Virgin Churchyard in Rolvenden - Didymodon nicholsonii, Leptobarbula berica.
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Canterbury
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Canterbury Field Study Centre - Hennediella stanfordensis.
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Church Woods - Scapania irrigua, Sphagnum angustifolium.
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Denge Wood - Abietinella abietina.
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Larkey Valley Wood - Hennediella stanfordensis.
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St Mary's Churchyard in Chatham - Leptobarbula berica.
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Trenley Park Wood - Ditrichum heteromallum.
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Dartford
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Scadbury Park - Fissidens celticus.
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Dover
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Langdon Bay - Weissia sterilis.
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Lydden Valley and Down - Bryum caespiticium, Cephaloziella baumgartneri, Weissia condensa, Weissia sterilis.
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Samphire Hoe - Bryum archangelicum, Bryum caespiticium, Oxyrrhynchium speciosum.
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St Mary the Virgin Churchyard in Woodnesborough - Bryum caespiticium.
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St Peter's Churchyard in Walton - Neckera smithii.
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Gravesham
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Cobham Park Woods - Hennediella macrophylla.
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Shorne Woods Country Park - Ditrichum heteromallum.
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St John's Churchyard in Higham - Bryum caespiticium
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St Peter and St Paul Churchyard in Shorne - Bryum caespiticium.
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Maidstone
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Boxley Warren - Abietinella abietina.
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Ditton Quarry Nature Reserve - Protobryum bryoides.
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Hollingbourne Hill - Abietinella abietina, Entodon concinnus.
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King's Wood - Atrichum angustatum, Nardia scalaris.
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Loose Valley Conservation Area - Mnium stellare.
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Oaken Wood - Dicranum flagellare, Scapania irrigua, Scapania nemorea.
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St Peter's Churchyard in Boughton Monchelsea - Bryum caespiticium.
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St Peter and St Paul Churchyard in Headcorn - Hennediella macrophylla.
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Trundle Wood - Plagiothercium laetum.
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Widehurst Wood - Dicranella rufescens, Ditrichum heteromallum.
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Medway
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​Gillingham Cemetery - Hennediella macrophylla.
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Queendown Warren Nature Reserve - Abietinella abietina, Bryum algovicum, Tortula subulata.
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Sevenoaks
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Andrews Wood - Herzogiella seligeri, Lophozia personii.
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Birchet Common - Leucobryum juniperoideum.
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Birchetts Wood - Ulota calvescens, Ulota coarctata.
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Bough Beach Reservoir - Riccia subbifurca.
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Chevening Park - Weissia sterilis.
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Cowden Pounds Pastures Wildlife Reserve - Fissidens celticus.
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Farningham Wood - Hennediella macrophylla, Sphaerocarpos michelii.
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Fawkham Wood - Schistochilopsis incisa.
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Hartely Wood - Mnium stellare.
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Hewitts Bank Wildlife Reserve - Abietinella abietina.
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Hill Water Bottom Wood - Platygyrium repens.
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Hollows Wood - Bryum caespiticium.
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Kemsong Down - Abietinella abietina.
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Knole Park - Didymodon ferrugineus.
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Longfield Chalkbank Nature Reserve - Abietinella abietina.
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Oldbury Hill - Barbilophozia attenuata, Bartramia pomiformis, Scapania nemorea.
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Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve - Fossombronia incurva.
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St Nicholas Churchyard in Sevenoaks - Encalypta streptocarpa.
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St Peter Church in Hever - Racomitrium affine.
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St Peter's Churchyard in Ightham - Reboulia hemisphaerica.
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St Peter Churchyard in Seal - Brachythecium glareosum, Didymodon ferrugineus, Hylocomium splendens.
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Stubbs Wood - Leucobryum juniperoideum.
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Shepway
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Brockhill Country Park - Leskea polycarpa.
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Covert Wood - Pohlia lescuriana.
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Denge Marsh - Antitrichia curtipendula, Bryum warneum, Climacium dendroides, Hyloconium splendens.
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Dungeness - Bryum pallescens, Bryum warneum.
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Folkestone Warren Nature Reserve - Bryum caespiticium.
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Gibbins Brook - Aulacomnium palustre.
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St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church in Brabourne - Leptobarbula berica.
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Sugarloaf Hill - Pellia neesiana.
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Swale
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Brogdale Farm - Sphaerocarpos michelii.
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Bysing Wood - Dicranella rufescens.
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Cromers Wood - Scapania irrugua.
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Endings Wood - Abietinella abietina, Campylophyllopsis calcarea.
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Hunstead Wood Nature Reserve - Calypogeia sphagnicola, Sphagnum flexuosum.
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Lower Halstow - Chernia leptophylla.
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Oakenpole Wood - Plagiothecium laetum.
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Oare Marsh Nature Reserve - Bryum caespiticium.
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Perry Wood - Bartramia pomiformis, Hypnum lindberghi.
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Thanet
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Botany Bay - Bryum caespiticium.
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King George VI Park - Hennediella stanfordensis, Tortula vahliana.
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Ramsgate Cemetery - Weissia longifolia.
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Tonbridge and Malling
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Basted Mill Public Open Space - Mnimium stellare.
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Bedgebury - Dicranella rufescens, Entosthodon obtusus, Herzogiella seligeri, Rhytidiadelphus loreus.
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Burham Down - Abietinella abietana.
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Dene Park - Scapania irrugua.
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Great Comp Garden - Bryum caespiticium.
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Haysden - Porella coraeana.
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Holly Hill - Abietinella abietina.
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Mereworth Woods - Dicranum flagellare, Entosthodon obtusus, Riccia subbifurca.
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St Mary Old Churchyard in Burham - Ecladium verticillatum.
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St Mary the Virgin Churchyard in Stansted - Letobarbula berica.
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Trosely Park - Abietinella abietina,Hennediella macrophylla, Microbryum floerkeanum, Pottiopsis caespitosa, Weissia rutilans.
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Tunbridge Wells
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All Saints Church in Tudley - Grimmia tricophylla.
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Angley Wood - Atrichum angistatum, Atrichum tenellum, Cryptothallus mirabilis, Tricolea tormentella.
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Avery's Wood - Bryum sauteri, Pogonatum urnigerum.
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Bewl Water - Dicranum flagellare, Didymodon nicholsonii, Physcomitrium patens.
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Chingley Wood - Pogonatum urnigerum.
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Cinderhill Wood - Hennediella macrophylla.
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Combwell Wood - Atrichum tenellum, Brachythecium plumosum, Hyocomium armoricum, Leucobryum juniperoideum, Nowellia curvifolia, Pohlia lescuriana, Sematophyllum substrumulosum.
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Friezeland Wood - Bazzania trilobata, Cephalozia catenulata, Cephalozi curvifolia, Dicranum scottianum, Harpanthus scutatus, Odontoschisma denudatum, Scapania gracilis, Scapania nemorea, Tritomaria exsectiformis.
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High Wood - Dicranum flagellare.
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Hungershall Rocks - Barbilophozia attenuata, Calypogeia integristipula, Heterocladium heterpterum, Jungermannia pumila, Marsupella emarginata, Pallavicinia lyelli, Tetrodontium brownianum.
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Old Park Wood - Leucobryum juniperoideum, Plagiothecium laetum.
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Pembury Woods - Sphagnum inundatum.
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Rusthall Common - Grimmia trichophylla, Rebuolia hemisphaerica.
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Scotney Castle - Pallavicinia lyelli.
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Snipe Wood - Leucobryum juniperoideum.
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Southborough Common - Hennediella macrophylla.
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Tudley Wood - Scaoania irrugua, Scapania nemorea, Rhytidiadelphus loreus.
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