[5] The Warren was still a popular picnic spot in Edwardian times and a nearby tea chalet served hundreds of visitors daily.

The park covers an area of 299.4 hectares (or 739.8 acres (2,994,000 m2)) It has various paths leading through it towards the coastline and beach,[8] or up to the cliffs towards Old Dover Road.

The land is generally formed out of Gault Clay (for the cliffs) and sandstone for the more resistant rocky headland of Copt Point.

After the Country Park was set up, grazing animals were banned, this has allowed shrubs and trees to seed naturally across the site.

Also rare plant species in the park include; wild cabbage (Brassica oleracea), the Dover variety of Nottingham catchfly (Silene nutans var.

[14] The White Cliffs Countryside Project (WCCP), who are assisting by local volunteers to maintain the remaining areas of chalk grassland and meadow.

They have created open grassy corridor habitats along the footpaths so that the wild flowers and insects can survive and access other parts of the important nature reserve.

[15] The Saxon Shore Way and North Downs Way, (long distance trails lead through the park between Folkestone and Dover, via Capel-le-Ferne.

[16] Beside Wear Bay Road, on the northern fringes of the park, is Little Switzerland Camping Site; it is so named because of the mountainous-looking white cliffs nearby.