--- title: "Challock – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Challock, United Kingdom: Challock is a mostly wooded, large village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford, Kent, England. Nearby: All Saints’…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/challock" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/challock.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Ss_Cosmas_and_Damian%2C_Challock%2C_west_front.JPG/1920px-Ss_Cosmas_and_Damian%2C_Challock%2C_west_front.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Village in Kent, England · United Kingdom # Challock Challock is a mostly wooded, large village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford, Kent, England. ![Challock](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Ss_Cosmas_and_Damian%2C_Challock%2C_west_front.JPG/1920px-Ss_Cosmas_and_Damian%2C_Challock%2C_west_front.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Challock · Poliphilo The place Challock is a mostly wooded, large village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford, Kent, England. The village name derives from the old English 'Cealfloca' – calf enclosure. A clear nucleus of the village is centred 8 miles (13 km) south of the port of Faversham and 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Ashford. It dates from around AD823. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challock), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Challock 4 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. 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. 3.3 km · church in Boughton Aluph, Ashford, Kent, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Boughton_Aluph) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Wood,_Chilham) 3. 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. 3.8 km · church in Boughton Lees, Kent, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Christopher%27s_Church,_Boughton_Lees) 4. 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. 3.5 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 Challock **Airports:** London Gatwick (LGW), 75 km · London Stansted (STN), 86 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 97 km\ - London → Challock 77 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-challock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Challock) - London, Essex → Challock 77 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-essex-to-challock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London%2C+Essex&to=Challock) - Luton, Luton → Challock 116 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £14–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-challock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=Challock) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Challock) 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 Challock 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 Challock. 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. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 164 km 2. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 360 km 3. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 387 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 627 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 662 km If you know how people move in Challock – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cchallock&title=Challock&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fchallock), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Challock - [Molash](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/molash) village in Kent, England, UK 1.6 km - [Boughton Aluph](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/boughton-aluph) village in Kent, England, UK 3.3 km - [Eastwell](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/eastwell) hamlet and civil parish in Kent, UK 3.1 km - [Boughton Lees](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/boughton-lees) village in Kent, England, UK 3.7 km - [Eastwell Park](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/eastwell-park) large area of parkland and a country estate in the civil parish of Eastwell 3.2 km - [Boughton Corner](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/boughton-corner) village in Kent, United Kingdom 4 km [The place page for Challock](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/challock) [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/challock, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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