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Bilting

Bilting is a hamlet within the civil parish of Godmersham in the Ashford District of Kent, England.

Bilting
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The place

Bilting is a hamlet within the civil parish of Godmersham in the Ashford District of Kent, England. It stretches along the A28 at the foot of the Godmersham Downs, five miles northeast of Ashford town.

At the 2011 Census, the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Wye with Hinxhill

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bilting

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
    Wye College

    The College of St Gregory and St Martin at Wye, commonly known as Wye College, was an education and research institution in the village of Wye, Kent. In 1447, Cardinal John Kempe founded his chantry there which also educated local children.

    2.5 km · college in Wye, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    All Saints’ Church, Boughton Aluph

    All Saints' Church is a 13th-century pilgrims' Grade I listed church in Boughton Aluph near Ashford, Kent. It is part of the Church of England.

    2.6 km · church in Boughton Aluph, Ashford, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Godmersham Park

    Godmersham Park is a Grade I listed house in Godmersham in the English county of Kent. The house is on the edge of the North Downs between Ashford and Canterbury.

    1.7 km · Grade I listed building in Godmersham, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Park Wood, Chilham

    Park Wood is a 31.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Chilham in Kent. This wood is mainly hazel and hornbeam coppice with oak standards, and diverse shrub and ground layers.

    3.5 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Kent, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Olantigh

    Olantigh is an English house 1 mile north of Wye in the civil parish of Wye with Hinxhill, in Kent, England. The garden terraces and towered stable block were Grade II listed in 1989 and extend to 20 acres, beside the Great Stour river.

    1 km · country house in Wye with Hinxhill, 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 Bilting

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 79 km · London Stansted (STN), 90 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 102 km
Stations
Wye railway station, 2.6 km
  • London → Bilting
    81 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Bilting
    81 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Bilting
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bilting

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 Bilting. 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

    168 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    358 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    391 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    631 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    666 km

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

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