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Bough Beech

Bough Beech is a hamlet in the county of Kent, England, and is south of the Bough Beech Reservoir.

Bough Beech
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The place

Bough Beech is a hamlet in the county of Kent, England, and is south of the Bough Beech Reservoir. It is located approximately three miles (5 km) east of Edenbridge and five miles (8 km) south west of Sevenoaks. It is in the civil parish of Chiddingstone.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bough Beech

6 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
    Hever Castle

    Hever Castle is located in the village Hever, Kent, near Edenbridge, 30 miles southeast of London, England. It began as a country house, built in the 13th century.

    1.9 km · Grade I listed country house in Hever, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chiddingstone Castle

    Chiddingstone Castle is situated in the village of Chiddingstone, near Edenbridge, Kent, England, 35 miles south-southeast of London and in the upper valley of the River Medway. The castle was built by the Streatfeild family and served as their seat from the early 16th century until the beginning of the 20th century when the family left the castle.

    1.9 km · house museum in Kent, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Luke

    St Luke is a Grade II* listed Church of England church in Chiddingstone Causeway, Kent. It was built in 1897–1898 to a design by John Francis Bentley in a loosely Decorated Gothic Revival style, replacing a tin tabernacle.

    3.3 km · church in Chiddingstone Causeway, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary, Chiddingstone

    St. Mary the Virgin is a parish church in the united benefice of Chiddingstone, Penshurst, Chiddingstone Causeway and Fordcombe in the Anglican Diocese of Rochester.

    2 km · church in Chiddingstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bough Beech Reservoir

    Bough Beech Reservoir is a 42-hectare nature reserve in Bough Beech, south-west of Sevenoaks in Kent. It was managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust until July 2020.

    2.8 km · reservoir in Kent, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    How Green House

    How Green House is an architecturally important Arts and Crafts movement style country house near Hever in the Sevenoaks District of Kent. It was designed by Scottish architect Robert Weir Schultz and drawn by his assistant Cecil Wood.

    1.6 km · English country house · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bough Beech

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 23 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 51 km · London Stansted (STN), 76 km
Stations
Penshurst railway station, 3.1 km · Penshurst Airfield, 3.8 km · Hever railway station, 3.3 km
  • London → Bough Beech
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Bough Beech
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £5–7
  • Luton, Luton → Bough Beech
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £11–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bough Beech

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    116 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    334 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    403 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    599 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    634 km

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Around it

Next door to Bough Beech

Bough Beech is 38 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.