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Bapchild

Bapchild is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England, about two miles inside of Sittingbourne.

The place

Bapchild is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England, about two miles inside of Sittingbourne. It lies on the old Roman road now the A2, and according to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,068, including Tonge, increasing to 1,141 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bapchild

4 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.

  1. 01
    Cromers Wood

    Cromers Wood is a 28-hectare nature reserve between Milstead and Sittingbourne in Kent. It is managed by Kent Wildlife Trust.

    2.4 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Pines Garden

    Pines Garden is a 6-acre area of parkland, located on the winding beach road from St Margaret's at Cliffe village down to the beach at St Margeret's Bay, near Dover.

    3.9 km · garden in St Margaret's at Cliffe, Kent · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sharsted Court

    Sharsted Court is a grade I listed manor house set in woodland near the village of Newnham, Kent England. A house or lodge has been recorded at the site since the time of Odo de Bayeux in 1080, however the present building, exhibiting a number of later styles, principally dates from the 18th century.

    3.8 km · building in Newnham, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of All Saints, Murston

    The Church of All Saints, Murston, Sittingbourne, is a Church of England parish church in the county of Kent, England. It is notable due to its architect, William Burges, and was constructed in 1873–4.

    3 km · church in Murston, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Bapchild

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 69 km · London Stansted (STN), 73 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 87 km
Stations
Sittingbourne railway station, 3.6 km · Teynham railway station, 3.4 km
  • London → Bapchild
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £7–9
  • London, Essex → Bapchild
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Bapchild
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £12–17
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bapchild

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 Bapchild. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundIt is signed throughout although its quality is variable, with a mix of cycle tracks, quiet roads and a few off-road sections.

From Wikivoyage: Kent, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    161 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    360 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    379 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    614 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    649 km

If you know how people move in Bapchild – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bapchild

  • Sittingbourneindustrial town in Kent, England, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Swalenon-metropolitan district with borough status in Kent, England, UK3.6 km
  • Doddingtonvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK3.9 km
  • Milsteadvillage in Kent, England, UK3.4 km
  • Tunstallvillage in Kent, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Teynhamvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK2.8 km