Folkestone, Kent | Take a walk with us for National Walking Month!

May is National Walking Month... so where have we been? Rosie from Kent Libraries takes you on a walk from Folkestone East Cliff and Warren Country Park, up the cliff into Capel-Le-Ferne and back into Folkestone Harbour, finding fossils and lots of wildlife along the way! Where are your favourite places to walk in the area?
Folkestone is one of the best sites in southern England to go fossil hunting as you can see in this video with two ammonites found in just half an hour! Find out more about some of the first animals that ever existed in David Attenborough's First Life (kent.overdrive..., or be inspired by the story of Mary Anning in The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling (kent.overdrive....
The Samphire Hoe conservation team recently reported a rare sighting of a
White Tailed Sea Eagle! Find out more about how these predators have been reintroduced to Britain after 200 years of extinction in Restoring the Wild by Roy Dennis (kent.overdrive....
Don't forget our libraries have a lot of books on walking, nature and local history that you can borrow for free. The books featured in this video can be borrowed for free from our eLibrary and via the Libby app. Browse our catalogue to check what's available!
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
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Salt on your Tongue: Women and the Sea
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The Brilliant Abyss: True Tales of Exploring the Deep Sea, Discovering Hidden Life and Selling the Seabed
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