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Benenden

Benenden is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.

Benenden
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The place

Benenden is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The parish is located on the Weald, 6 miles (10 km) to the west of Tenterden. In addition to the main village, Iden Green, East End, Dingleden and Standen Street settlements are included in the parish.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Benenden

2 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
    Church of St George, Benenden

    St George's Church, Benenden is a Church of England church in Benenden, Kent. The building is Grade II* listed with Historic England.

    300 m · church in Benenden, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hole Park

    Hole Park is a privately owned country house near the village of Rolvenden, in Kent, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

    2.5 km · country house 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.

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Getting to Benenden

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 54 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 85 km · London Stansted (STN), 94 km
  • London → Benenden
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £8–11
  • London, Essex → Benenden
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Benenden
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £14–19
  • 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 Benenden

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThey continue to Ashford, then either to Canterbury West, Minster and Ramsgate, or to Folkestone and Dover (for Channel ferries).

From Wikivoyage: Tenterden, 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

    139 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    366 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    388 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    628 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    664 km

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

Around it

Next door to Benenden

  • Swattendenvillage in Kent, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Coursehornvillage in Kent, England, UK3.2 km
  • Kenshamhamlet in Kent, England, UK3.9 km
  • Iden Greenvillage in Benenden, Kent, England, UK1.3 km
  • Parsonage Woodarea of woodland in Benenden, Kent, United Kingdom1.1 km