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Bilsington

Bilsington is a village and civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent, England.

Bilsington
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The place

Bilsington is a village and civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent, England. The village is about 5 miles (8 km) south of Ashford, on the B2067 road, Hamstreet to Hythe road north of the Royal Military Canal.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bilsington

4 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 Rumwold, Bonnington

    St Rumwold's Church is an active parish church in the parish of Bonnington, Kent, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

    1.7 km · Grade I listed church in Bonnington, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Poulton Wood

    Poulton Wood is a 10.2-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Aldington, south-east of Ashford in Kent. It is owned and managed by Canterbury Oast Trust.

    2.7 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ham Street Woods

    Ham Street Woods is a 175.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Ashford in Kent. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, and an area of 97.1 hectares is a National Nature Reserve.

    3.1 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary Magdalene

    St Mary Magdalene Church, Ruckinge is a parish church located in Ruckinge, Kent, England. The church was built in the 12th century, probably on the site of an earlier church.

    1.8 km · church in Ruckinge, 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 Bilsington

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 77 km · London Stansted (STN), 102 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 105 km
Stations
Ham Street railway station, 4 km · RAF Kingsnorth, 4 km · RAF Newchurch, 2.4 km
  • London → Bilsington
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Bilsington
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Bilsington
    128 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £15–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bilsington

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA small airport with its own airline LyddAir which offers charter flights.

From Wikivoyage: Ashford (England), 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

    161 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    370 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    390 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    642 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    677 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bilsington

  • Aldingtonvillage and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England3.2 km
  • Bonningtonvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK1.7 km
  • Newchurchvillage and civil parish in Kent, England3.3 km
  • Ruckingevillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK3.5 km
  • Orlestonevillage and civil parish in Kent, UK3.5 km
  • Aldington Frithvillage in Kent, United Kingdom2.5 km