BUS COMPANY ISLAND - Encyclopedia Information

Bus Company Island is a 1.1-hectare (2.7-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Canterbury in Kent. It is owned and managed by Canterbury City Council.^[1]^[2]

The island is important as a reptile monitoring site.^[1] It was formerly a watermill, and then a bus park. It is now a meadow and orchard.^[3]

Access is by permit only.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Bus Company Island". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
^ "Map of Bus Company Island". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
^ "Once a bus park, now a wildlife haven". Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2018.

v t e Local nature reserves in Kent
Ashford	Ashford Community Woodland Ashford Green Corridors Hothfield Common Poulton Wood
Canterbury	Bishopstone Cliffs Bus Company Island Foxes Cross Bottom Curtis Wood Jumping Downs Larkey Valley Wood No Man's Orchard Seasalter Levels South Bank of the Swale Tyler Hill Meadow Whitehall Meadows
Dartford	Rectory Meadow
Dover	High Meadow Prince's Beachlands Western Heights Whinless Down
Folkestone & Hythe	Folkestone Warren Romney Warren
Maidstone	Boxley Warren River Len Vinters Valley Park
Medway	Ambley Wood Baty's Marsh Berengrave Chalk Pit Darland Banks Foxburrow Wood Levan Strice South Wood
Sevenoaks	Dryhill Farningham Wood
Swale	Oare Marshes Queendown Warren
Tonbridge and Malling	Ditton Quarry Haysden Country Park
Tunbridge Wells	Barnett's Wood Crane Valley Foal Hurst Wood Hilbert Woods

Bus Company Island

Type

Local Nature Reserve

Location

Canterbury, Kent

Area

1.1 hectares (2.7 acres)

Managed by

Canterbury City Council

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Bus Company Island". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
^ "Map of Bus Company Island". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
^ "Once a bus park, now a wildlife haven". Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2018.