Charcott
Charcott is a hamlet in the civil parish of Leigh, in the Sevenoaks district, in the county of Kent, England.
Charcott is a hamlet in the civil parish of Leigh, in the Sevenoaks district, in the county of Kent, England. It is located within the River Medway valley. It is four miles west of the town of Tonbridge, 16 miles west of the county town of Maidstone, and 25 miles south-east of London.
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Worth seeing in and around Charcott
9 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.
- 01Penshurst Place
Penshurst Place is a historic building near Penshurst, Kent, 32 miles southeast of London, England. It is the ancestral home of the Sidney family, and was the birthplace of the great Elizabethan poets and courtiers, siblings Mary Sidney and Philip Sidney.
3.2 km · historic building near Tonbridge, Kent in England · Wikipedia - 02Chiddingstone 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.
3.1 km · house museum in Kent, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Long Barn
Long Barn, located in the village of Sevenoaks Weald, Kent, is a Grade II* listed building and a Grade II* registered garden. Reputedly the birthplace of William Caxton, the house was later the home of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson.
3.5 km · house in Sevenoaks Weald, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St John the Baptist, Penshurst
St John the Baptist Church at Penshurst in Kent is a Grade I listed Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Rochester in England. Those buried or commemorated here include Knights, Earls, Viscounts, a Viceroy of India, a Governor-General of Australia, a Private Secretary to two Kings, two Field Marshals and two winners of the Victoria Cross.
3.3 km · church in Penshurst, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church 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.
2.9 km · church in Chiddingstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Bough 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.
3.5 km · reservoir in Kent, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Church 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.
600 m · church in Chiddingstone Causeway, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08St Mary's Church, Leigh
St Mary's Church is a parish church in Leigh, Kent. The current church was originally completed in the 13th century, although a church is believed to have stood on the same site for over a thousand years.
2.7 km · church in Leigh, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Penshurst Park
Penshurst Park Cricket Ground, also known as the Earl of Leicester's Park, is a cricket ground at Penshurst in Kent. It is one of the oldest cricket venues in England.
3.2 km · Cricket ground in Kent, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Charcott
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 26 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 53 km · London Stansted (STN), 76 km
- Stations
- Hildenborough railway station, 3.7 km · Leigh railway station, 2.5 km · Penshurst railway station, 800 m · Penshurst Airfield, 500 m
- London → Charcott40 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £5–7
- London, Essex → Charcott40 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £5–7
- Luton, Luton → Charcott86 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Charcott
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 Charcott. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Charcott
Charcott is 40 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Penshurstvillage and civil parish in Kent, England3.6 km
- Chiddingstonevillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK2.8 km
- Leighvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK3 km
- Sevenoaks Wealdvillage in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK4 km
- Chiddingstone Causewayvillage in Kent, England, UK900 m
- Bough Beechvillage in Kent, England, UK3.4 km