--- title: "Boughton Aluph – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Boughton Aluph, United Kingdom: Boughton Aluph is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England, and is about 5 miles (8 km) north…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/boughton-aluph" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/boughton-aluph.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Brewhouse_Lane%2C_Boughton_Aluph_%28geograph_3968043%29.jpg/3840px-Brewhouse_Lane%2C_Boughton_Aluph_%28geograph_3968043%29.jpg" --- Village in Kent, England · United Kingdom # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Brewhouse_Lane%2C_Boughton_Aluph_%28geograph_3968043%29.jpg/3840px-Brewhouse_Lane%2C_Boughton_Aluph_%28geograph_3968043%29.jpg) Boughton Aluph · Wikimedia Commons 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boughton_Aluph), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godmersham_Park) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wye_College) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Boughton_Aluph) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olantigh) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Christopher%27s_Church,_Boughton_Lees) 6. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Eastwell) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-boughton-aluph) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Boughton+Aluph) - London, Essex → Boughton Aluph 80 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £9–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-essex-to-boughton-aluph) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London%2C+Essex&to=Boughton+Aluph) - Luton, Luton → Boughton Aluph 119 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-boughton-aluph) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=Boughton+Aluph) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Boughton%20Aluph) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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 in A small airport with its own airline LyddAir which offers charter flights. From [Wikivoyage: Ashford (England)](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ashford_(England%29), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. 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Around it ## Next door to Boughton Aluph - [Godmersham](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/godmersham) village in Kent, England, UK 3.9 km - [Wye](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wye) village in Kent, United Kingdom 2.8 km - [Challock](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/challock) village in Kent, England, UK 3.3 km - [Molash](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/molash) village in Kent, England, UK 3.3 km - [Kennington](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kennington) suburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, UK 3.8 km - [Eastwell](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/eastwell) hamlet and civil parish in Kent, UK 2.7 km [The place page for Boughton Aluph](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/boughton-aluph) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/boughton-aluph, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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