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Boughton Aluph

Boughton Aluph is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England, and is about 5 miles (8 km) north of Ashford on the A251 road.

Boughton Aluph
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The place

Boughton Aluph is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England, and is about 5 miles (8 km) north of Ashford on the A251 road. There are two villages within the parish: Boughton Aluph itself, and Boughton Lees. Boughton Corner is a small hamlet within the parish, further east on the A28 road. At its south-western end, the parish also contains part of the built up area of Ashford. The parish shared a grouped parish council with the neighbouring parish of Eastwell. In 2011 the parish had a population of 2490.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Boughton Aluph

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
    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.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed building in Godmersham, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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
  3. 03
    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.

    100 m · church in Boughton Aluph, Ashford, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.6 km · country house in Wye with Hinxhill, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Saint Christopher's Church, Boughton Lees

    Saint Christopher's Church is a mediaeval Grade II listed church in Boughton Lees near Ashford, Kent, part of the Church of England. The building was originally a mediaeval hall house.

    1.7 km · church in Boughton Lees, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Mary's Church, Eastwell

    St Mary's Church is a ruined former Church of England parish church, in the grounds of Eastwell Park in the hamlet of Eastwell, Kent, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is a Scheduled monument.

    2.6 km · grade II listed church in Eastwell, Ashford, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Boughton Aluph

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 77 km · London Stansted (STN), 90 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 100 km
Stations
Wye railway station, 1.9 km
  • London → Boughton Aluph
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £9–11
  • London, Essex → Boughton Aluph
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £9–11
  • Luton, Luton → Boughton Aluph
    119 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Boughton Aluph

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 Boughton Aluph. 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

    165 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    361 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    389 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    630 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    665 km

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Around it

Next door to Boughton Aluph

  • Godmershamvillage in Kent, England, UK3.9 km
  • Wyevillage in Kent, United Kingdom2.8 km
  • Challockvillage in Kent, England, UK3.3 km
  • Molashvillage in Kent, England, UK3.3 km
  • Kenningtonsuburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, UK3.8 km
  • Eastwellhamlet and civil parish in Kent, UK2.7 km