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Chainhurst

Chainhurst is a wealden village in Kent, England, and is part of Marden civil parish and Maidstone District.

Chainhurst
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The place

Chainhurst is a wealden village in Kent, England, and is part of Marden civil parish and Maidstone District. It is about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Marden, below Bidborough Ridge, and south of the River Beult floodplain.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chainhurst

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
    St Mary's Church, Hunton

    St Mary's Church is a parish church in Hunton, Kent, England. It was begun in the late 11th or the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building.

    2.2 km · Grade I listed church in Hunton, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Linton Park

    Linton Park, formerly Linton Place or Linton Hall, is a large 18th-century country house in Linton, Kent, England. Built by Robert Mann in 1730 to replace a much earlier building called 'Capell's Court', the estate passed through the ownership of several members of Mann's family before coming into the Cornwallis family.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed English country house in Linton, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Nicholas Church, Linton

    St Nicholas Church is a parish church in the village of Linton, Kent, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.4 km · church in Linton, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Holy Trinity Church, Coxheath

    Holy Trinity Church is a parish church in the village of Coxheath, Kent, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

    3.6 km · church in Coxheath, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Michael and All Angels Church, Marden

    St Michael and All Angels Church is a parish church in Marden, Kent. It was begun circa 1200 and is a Grade I listed building.

    3.2 km · church in Marden, 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 Chainhurst

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 47 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 72 km · London Stansted (STN), 78 km
Stations
Marden railway station, 3.2 km
  • London → Chainhurst
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £6–9
  • London, Essex → Chainhurst
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £6–9
  • Luton, Luton → Chainhurst
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chainhurst

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 Chainhurst. 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

    137 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    359 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    383 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    612 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    648 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chainhurst

Chainhurst is 54 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Coxheathvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK3.8 km
  • Lintonvillage and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England, UK2.7 km
  • Collier Streetvillage in Kent, England, UK2 km
  • Mardenvillage in Kent, England, UK3.3 km
  • Huntonvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK1.8 km
  • East Farleighvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom3.6 km