During the late 1990’s the Parish Council decided to consider the purchase of 20 acres of land adjacent to the recreation ground in order to create a nature and conservation area for the community. This proposal was subsequently agreed after an Open Public Meeting. The Council then set about raising funds for its purchase, with a view to expanding the existing woodlands and enhancing the fields by the regeneration of ponds and re-introduction of wild flower meadows.

The Millennium Field was officially opened on 19^th June 1999 and celebrated with a Country Fayre. A further equally successful event followed in the summer of 2000 with the unveiling of a Sunclock and Direction Indicator.

Extensive tree planting (including an avenue of oaks) and the sowing of five acres of wild flower meadow have now been completed. Various organisations, including the Forestry Commission, have provided advice and assistance in the form of match funding for voluntary work. Finance to the sum of £14,000 has also been raised in the form of grants from Rural Revival, Rural Regeneration and the Ashford Community Development Fund.

Two dipping platforms have been erected on the ponds and plans are underway for an information board to be sited at the main entrance. A further objective is to create a nature trail with environmental information being made available to visitors.

Those who uses the field would have also seen the woodcarvings - representing "man past and woman future" - and the "reclined pig" seat.

Footpaths

Biddenden has a network of pleasant footpaths, which are well marked and in good condition and which run through attractive pasture and woodland. They offer easy walks of anything between 1 and 5 miles, radiating from the village centre.

You can find your way easily by following the fingerposts and the yellow arrows with which the paths have been marked. There is a large-scale map of the network in a case by the village green; alternatively, a guide describing 5 walks around the parish is on sale at the village Post Office.