Saturday 19th July 2025, from 10:30 – 12.30 p.m. in the Nature Reserve.
Plants of the East Hill, Hastings, with Judy Clark and Jacqueline Rose

This is a chance to join Judy and Jacqueline on one of their popular guided walks. This year they will
be looking at the flora at the western end of the Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve (HCPNR).
The East Hill was recently included in the management plan for the Reserve and is now being
managed for the benefit of wild plants and insects. It might look as if there’s not a lot besides
grasses, but the area is surprisingly diverse, with a good variety of plants within a relatively small
area. Come along and discover what is growing there.
Jacqueline and Judy are field botanists with many years’ experience recording plants in East Sussex.
For the past 10 years they have conducted vegetation surveys in HCPNR as part of the monitoring of
the Higher Level Stewardship agreement. When this became the Countryside Stewardship
agreement in 2024 they continued to survey the flora in the Nature Reserve. These agreements
provide government funding to Hastings Borough Council for the management of HCPNR.