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Bexleyheath

Bexleyheath is a town in southeast London, England, in the London Borough of Bexley.

Bexleyheath
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The place

Bexleyheath is a town in southeast London, England, in the London Borough of Bexley. It had a population of approximately 15,600 in 2021 and is 12 miles southeast of Charing Cross. It is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in London. Its post town takes in other surrounding neighbourhoods, including Barnehurst, West Heath and Upton.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bexleyheath

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 41 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 41 km · London Stansted (STN), 48 km
  • London → Bexleyheath
    19 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £2.5–3
  • London, Essex → Bexleyheath
    19 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £2.5–3
  • Luton, Luton → Bexleyheath
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bexleyheath

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 Bexleyheath. 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

    132 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    336 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    386 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    575 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    611 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bexleyheath

Bexleyheath is 19 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.