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Barming

Barming is a civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England.

Barming
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The place

Barming is a civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. It lies to the west of Maidstone and at the 2011 census had a population of 2,690. The eastern end of the parish is part of the built-up area of Maidstone, although the remainder is much more rural. The River Medway forms its southern boundary.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Barming

10 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
    All Saints Church, Maidstone

    All Saints is a parish church in Maidstone, Kent. It is a Grade I listed building and has been described as the grandest Perpendicular style church in Kent.

    3.6 km · parish church associated with the Archbishop's Palace, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    All Saints Church, West Farleigh

    All Saints is a parish church in West Farleigh, Kent. It was begun in the 11th century and is a Grade I listed building.

    1.3 km · Grade I listed church in West Farleigh, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Barham Court

    Barham Court is an English country house in the village of Teston, Kent.

    2 km · country house in Teston, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Peter and St Paul, Teston

    St Peter's and St Paul's is a parish church in Teston, Kent. It is a Grade II* listed building and was rebuilt in 1736 for Sir Philip Boteler of Barham Court.

    2.1 km · church in Teston, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Quarry Wood, Kent

    Quarry Wood is a 26-hectare nature reserve east of West Farleigh, which is south-west of Maidstone in Kent. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust.

    2.7 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Wateringbury SSSI

    Wateringbury SSSI is a 0.2-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wateringbury west of Maidstone in Kent. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    3.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Teston Bridge

    Teston Bridge is a road bridge across the River Medway, between Teston and West Farleigh in Kent, England.

    2 km · Grade I listed bridge in Teston, Kent, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    West Farleigh Hall

    Smiths Hall, known as West Farleigh Hall from the early 20th century until the 1990s, is an 18th-century country house in West Farleigh, Kent.

    2.2 km · Grade I listed country house in West Farleigh, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Holy Trinity Church, Coxheath

    Holy Trinity Church is a parish church in the village of Coxheath, Kent, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

    3.9 km · church in Coxheath, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    East Farleigh Bridge

    East Farleigh Bridge is a road bridge across the River Medway in East Farleigh, Kent, England. The bridge is medieval and was probably constructed in the 14th century.

    1.4 km · Grade I listed bridge in 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 Barming

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 47 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 69 km · London Stansted (STN), 71 km
Stations
Maidstone Barracks railway station, 3.4 km · Maidstone West railway station, 3.2 km · Wateringbury railway station, 3.7 km · East Farleigh railway station, 1.4 km · East Malling railway station, 3.3 km
  • London → Barming
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £6–8
  • London, Essex → Barming
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Barming
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Barming

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    140 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    358 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    380 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    606 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    642 km

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

Around it

Next door to Barming

Barming is 50 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Maidstonenon-metropolitan district with borough status in Kent, England3.8 km
  • Dittonvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Coxheathvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK3.8 km
  • Wateringburyvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK3.4 km
  • Tovilvillage in Kent, England, UK2.7 km
  • East Farleighvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom3.5 km