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Barnehurst

Barnehurst is a town in Greater London within the London Borough of Bexley.

Barnehurst
Barnehurst · Ethan Doyle White
The place

Barnehurst is a town in Greater London within the London Borough of Bexley. It lies north east of Bexleyheath, and 13.0 miles (20 km) east south-east of Charing Cross. It is separated from North Bexleyheath by the A220, Erith Road.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Barnehurst

5 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
    Danson Park

    Danson Park is a public park in the London Borough of Bexley, South East London, located between Welling and Bexleyheath. At 75 hectares, it is the second largest public park in the borough, and the most used by the community.

    3.6 km · park in the London Borough of Bexley, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dartford Heath

    Dartford Heath Common is an area of open heathland situated to the south-west of Dartford, Kent, England, that covers around 314 acres of open space. Dartford Heath is classified as lowland heath and is one of only two substantial heathland blocks remaining in Kent.

    3.2 km · park in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Broadway Shopping Centre, Bexleyheath

    Broadway Shopping Centre is the principal covered shopping centre in the town centre of Bexleyheath and is the largest single covered shopping facility in the London Borough of Bexley.

    1.7 km · shopping mall in Greater London · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Foots Cray Place

    Foots Cray Place was one of the four country houses built in England in the 18th century to a design inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra near Vicenza. Built in 1754 near Sidcup, Kent, Foots Cray Place was demolished in 1950 after a fire in 1949.

    5.1 km · country house in London Borough of Bexley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bird College

    BIRD Conservatoire is an independent performing arts college, located in Sidcup, South East London, in the London Borough of Bexley. The college was founded as a dance school by Doreen Bird in 1946 and now provides specialist vocational training in dance and musical theatre, at further and higher education level.

    5.7 km · performing arts college in London, England · 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 Barnehurst

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 43 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 44 km · London Stansted (STN), 47 km
Stations
Abbey Wood railway station, 4.7 km · Bexleyheath railway station, 2.5 km · Slade Green railway station, 1.6 km · Belvedere railway station, 3.7 km · Bexley railway station, 2.8 km
  • London → Barnehurst
    20 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £2.5–3
  • London, Essex → Barnehurst
    20 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £2.5–3
  • Luton, Luton → Barnehurst
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Barnehurst

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextPopularly known as the Garden of England due to its green landscape, the county includes a number of attractions that could be included on day trips outside of the capital.
  • Go nextFrom the Greenwich Peninsula, take the IFS Cloud Cable Car (formerly Emirates Air Line) – the UK's first urban cable car.

From Wikivoyage: London/Greenwich, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    134 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    338 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    384 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    576 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    612 km

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Around it

Next door to Barnehurst

Barnehurst is 21 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • London Borough of Bexleyborough in the London Region in England1.2 km
  • Bexleyheathtown in south east London, England, United Kingdom, within the London Borough of Bexley2.1 km
  • Erithdistrict of South East London within the London Borough of Bexley1.7 km
  • Bexleyarea of southeast London, England, United Kingdom2.6 km
  • Abbey Woodarea of south-east London, England, UK4.9 km
  • Crayfordtown in south-east London, England, within the London Borough of Bexley1.6 km