Aldington
Aldington is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England.
Aldington is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village centre is eight miles (13 km) south-east of the town of Ashford. As with the village centre, set on a steep escarpment above agricultural Romney Marsh and the upper Stour is Aldington Knoll, which was used as a Roman burial barrow and later beacon, it has a panorama towards the English Channel and of low land such as Dungeness. At the 2021 Census the population included Bonnington.
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Worth seeing in and around Aldington
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Scot's Hall
Scot's Hall was a country house in Smeeth, between Ashford and Folkestone in southeast England. It was the property of a gentry family, the Scotts.
3 km · country house in Smeeth, England · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Rumwold, Bonnington
St Rumwold's Church is an active parish church in the parish of Bonnington, Kent, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
2.4 km · Grade I listed church in Bonnington, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Poulton Wood
Poulton Wood is a 10.2-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Aldington, south-east of Ashford in Kent. It is owned and managed by Canterbury Oast Trust.
500 m · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Aldington
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 79 km · London Stansted (STN), 101 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 106 km
- Stations
- Smeeth railway station, 1.8 km · RAF Kingsnorth, 3.9 km
- London → Aldington88 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Aldington88 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Aldington129 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £15–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Aldington
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aldington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA small airport with its own airline LyddAir which offers charter flights.
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Next door to Aldington
- Bonningtonvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK1.6 km
- Sellindgevillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK3.7 km
- Mershamvillage in Kent, England, UK2.8 km
- Smeethvillage in Kent, England, UK3.2 km
- Bilsingtonvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom3.2 km
- Aldington Frithvillage in Kent, United Kingdom1.6 km