Beacon Wood Country Park is a public woodland in Bean near Dartford, in Kent, England.

It was previously an industrial claypit then re-claimed as woodland park open to the public, currently owned by Tarmac.

[2] In 1885, John J. Allchin leased a section of the site, for the yearly rent of £4-10 shillings to the E.C.Powder Company Limited, who began manufacturing smokeless gunpowder.

[2] In 1991 Blue Circle Industries leased the 70 acres (280,000 m2) disused Clay Pit for 15 years to Kent County Council, who created the Beacon Wood Country Park and an Advisory Group was set up by Groundwork UK (Kent Thames-side) who managed the creation and operation of the park.

[4] Beacon Wood Country Park was created by Groundwork Trust and local Bean residents and then opened to the Public.

The Official Opening was on Wednesday 10 July 1991, by Sir Derek Barber, Chairman of the then Countryside Commission (now called Natural England).

[8] In October 2005, a feasibility study and proposed action plan, for the creation of an Dartford Ancient Woodlands Country Park (DAWCP), was published.

In April 2012, the country park was closed due to budget cuts within Kent County Council.