Chelsfield
Chelsfield is an area in southeast London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley and, prior to 1965, in the historic county of Kent.
Chelsfield is an area in southeast London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley and, prior to 1965, in the historic county of Kent. It lies south of Goddington, west of Well Hill, north of Pratt's Bottom and east of Green Street Green. The area is split into two distinct areas – the historic 'village' section, and the newer development by the railway station.
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Worth seeing in and around Chelsfield
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.
- 01High Elms Country Park
High Elms Country Park is an extensive 250-acre public park on the North Downs in Farnborough in the London Borough of Bromley. It is a Local Nature Reserve, and together with the neighbouring Downe Bank, a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
3.8 km · public park in Greater London · Wikipedia - 02Hewitt's Chalk Bank
Hewitt's Chalk Bank is a 4-hectare nature reserve north-east of Pratt's Bottom in the London Borough of Bromley. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust.
1.4 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03St Margaret's Church, Halstead
St Margaret's Church is an Anglican parish church in the village of Halstead and the Sevenoaks deanery, although the church also serves the village of Badgers Mount. St Katharine's and St Margaret's came together in 1983 as a United Benefice under one parish priest.
2.6 km · church in Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of All Saints, Orpington
The Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed church in Orpington, Bromley, London.
2.7 km · church in Orpington, London Borough of Bromley, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Shoreham Memorial Cross
The Shoreham Memorial Cross is a Christian cross hill figure carved into a chalk escarpment above the village of Shoreham, Kent. The concept of the cross was the idea of a Shoreham man, Samuel Cheeseman, two of whose sons had been killed on active duty during the First World War.
4 km · hill figure in Shoreham, 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.
Getting to Chelsfield
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 32 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 43 km · London Stansted (STN), 59 km
- Stations
- Orpington railway station, 3.3 km · Chelsfield railway station, 1.4 km · Orpington bus station, 3.1 km
- London → Chelsfield24 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £2.5–3.5
- London, Essex → Chelsfield24 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £2.5–3.5
- Luton, Luton → Chelsfield69 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £10–13
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Chelsfield
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 Chelsfield. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inWhile the runway is usable by aircraft up to Boeing 737/Airbus A320 size, it is prohibited for airline operators to sell tickets for flights in and out of the airport, thus there are no scheduled or holiday charter flights from the airport.
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If you know how people move in Chelsfield – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Chelsfield
Chelsfield is 24 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Orpingtontown in the London Borough of Bromley in London, England2.7 km
- Crockenhillvillage in Kent, England, UK3.6 km
- Badgers Mountvillage in Kent, England, UK2.2 km
- Farnborougharea of London, within London Borough of Bromley3.7 km
- Halsteadvillage in Kent, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Pratt's Bottomvillage in the London Borough of Bromley, England, UK2.3 km