Coney Banks is a strip of chalk grassland, once ancient woodland, horse grazing and stopping place. The steep banks are covered in scrub and trees, good shelter for foxes chunter-yelping and birdsong: blackcap, lesser whitethroat, song thrush, garden warbler, wren, chiffchaff, wood pigeon, jay, crow, robin, bluetit, great tit, blackbird. Desire routes cut through into chalk, traipsed by feet, foxes, quad bikes, dogs. The banks drop away down to a long east west valley stretch of parkland with football pitches rising steeply up again opposite. Its length is flanked by roads and housing.
Pronounced 'conny' Coney is an old word for Rabbits.