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Bickley

Bickley is a district and a local government electoral ward in South East London, within the London Borough of Bromley.

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The place

Bickley is a district and a local government electoral ward in South East London, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is located 10.4 miles (16.7 km) south east of Charing Cross, bordering Elmstead to the north, Chislehurst to the north-east and east, Petts Wood to the south-east, Southborough to the south, Bromley to the south-west and west and Widmore to the north-west. Until 1965, it was in the historic county of Kent.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bickley

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
    Hayes Lane

    Hayes Lane, currently known as the Copperjax Community Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Bromley, Greater London, England. Located between Bromley town centre and Hayes, it is the home of Bromley Football Club and London City Lionesses.

    2.1 km · association football stadium in England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Grove Park Cemetery

    Grove Park Cemetery is a cemetery in Chinbrook, Grove Park in the London Borough of Lewisham, that opened in 1935.

    2.8 km · cemetery in Lewisham, London · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bromley Town Hall

    Bromley Town Hall is a municipal building in Tweedy Road, Bromley, London. Built in 1906, it is a Grade II listed building.

    2.1 km · town hall in Bromley, Greater London, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Chinbrook Meadows

    Chinbrook Meadows is a park in southeast London, England, one of Lewisham's public open spaces. It is located between Chinbrook and Grove Park in the London Borough of Lewisham adjacent to the boundary with the London Borough of Bromley.

    3.4 km · park in London Borough of Lewisham, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Chislehurst Common

    Chislehurst Common is an open space in Chislehurst in the London Borough of Bromley in south-east London. It is jointly managed with St Paul's Cray Common.

    1.8 km · park in Chislehurst, London, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Camden Place

    Camden Place is a country house in Chislehurst in Bromley, London, England. The house, which is now used as the club house of Chislehurst Golf Club, is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.8 km · historic house in Chislehurst, London and last residence of Napoleon III · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bromley & Sheppard’s Colleges

    Bromley and Sheppard's Colleges are located in Bromley and today provide accommodation for retired clergy and their dependents. Bromley College provides 40 self-contained dwellings, and Sheppard's College a further seven.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed building in the London Borough of Bromley, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Mary’s Church

    St Mary's Church, Bromley is a Church of England parish church in what was the village of Plaistow in Bromley. It was consecrated in 1863 and enlarged three times between 1881 and 1900.

    2.6 km · Church of England church in Bromley, Kent · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Bromley Little Theatre

    Bromley Little Theatre is a community theatre in Bromley in the London Borough of Bromley, England and is a member of the Little Theatre Guild of Great Britain. Its president is the actor Michael York.

    2.3 km · Community theatre in London Borough of Bromley, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Bromley Civic Centre

    Bromley Civic Centre is a municipal building in Westmoreland Road, Bromley, London. The building currently serves as the headquarters of Bromley London Borough Council.

    2.1 km · municipal building in 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 Bickley

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 32 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 36 km · London Stansted (STN), 55 km
Stations
Hayes railway station, 3.7 km · Petts Wood railway station, 2.3 km · Bromley South railway station, 2.1 km · Bickley railway station, 200 m · Elmstead Woods railway station, 1.8 km
  • London, Essex → Bickley
    17 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £2–2.5
  • Luton, Luton → Bickley
    62 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £10–13
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Bickley
    179 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · £22–30
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bickley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inWhile the runway is usable by aircraft up to Boeing 737/Airbus A320 size, it is prohibited for airline operators to sell tickets for flights in and out of the airport, thus there are no scheduled or holiday charter flights from the airport.

From Wikivoyage: London/South, 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

    123 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    329 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    395 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    577 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    613 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bickley

Bickley is 17 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • London Borough of Bromleyborough in the London Region in England1.9 km
  • Bromleylarge suburban district of south east London, England2.1 km
  • Chislehurstdistrict in South East London, England2.8 km
  • Hayesarea in the London Borough of Bromley, England, UK4 km
  • Downhamarea in the London Borough of Lewisham, UK4 km
  • Shortlandssuburban village in the London Borough of Bromley, Greater London, England3 km