Where we work.

The city

The walled city and its immediate Victorian belt. Most of this area is inside one of Canterbury City Council's 97 conservation areas — work on any tree over 75mm needs six weeks' notice, which we file on your behalf. Soil is mixed: thin chalk on the higher ground, deep loam down in the Stour valley.

• Wincheap — Victorian terraces with small front gardens, mostly privet, box and occasional legacy leylandii. CA-covered.
• St Dunstan's — Westgate-adjacent, walled gardens, CCCU HMOs.
• Northgate — terraced and Edwardian semis. Mostly inside the City CA.
• St Stephen's and Hackington — old village core plus post-war estates; mature hornbeam and beech screens, larger gardens.
• Hales Place — 1960s ex-council, top student-household ward; landlord-driven cuts, neglected leylandii dominant.
• Old Dover Road and South Canterbury — Victorian villas, walled rears, mature yew, box and holly. CA-covered.
• Thanington and the Sturry Road corridor — social housing plus new builds; standard suburban privet and laurel.

The Blean fringe

The villages strung along the edge of Blean Woods — one of the largest blocks of ancient woodland in southern England. Dormouse country. Native mixed hedgerows, larger rural plots. Different cut-back protocol than the city gardens. Read the dormouse guide.

• Blean village
• Tyler Hill
• Rough Common
• Harbledown
• Honey Hill

The downland villages

The Nailbourne chalk-stream valley and the rolling country south and east of the city. Mature beech, hornbeam and native field hedges. Some of these villages have their own conservation areas; many have TPOs on parish churchyard yews and field-corner standards.

• Bridge — Nailbourne valley, mature beech, native field hedges.
• Bekesbourne
• Patrixbourne
• Littlebourne
• Fordwich — England's smallest town by population; medieval core CA.
• Westbere
• Sturry
• Hersden
• Chartham and Chartham Hatch

Not sure if we cover your postcode?

Our standard round runs about 12km from the city centre. If you are inside CT1-CT4 we almost certainly cover you. CT5 (Whitstable) is a different round; we will recommend a local Whitstable contractor rather than travel out for occasional jobs. CT15 (Wingham and surrounding villages) is covered by our sister site winghamhedges.co.uk.