Chiddingstone Hoath
Chiddingstone Hoath is a hamlet in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England.
Chiddingstone Hoath is a hamlet in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. Notable buildings include Hoath House, and Stonewall Park, for some time home of the Meade-Waldo family. It lies within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is included in the civil parish of Chiddingstone.
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Worth seeing in and around Chiddingstone Hoath
7 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.
- 01Hever Castle
Hever Castle is located in the village Hever, Kent, near Edenbridge, 30 miles southeast of London, England. It began as a country house, built in the 13th century.
3.4 km · Grade I listed country house in Hever, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Penshurst 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.
3.3 km · historic building near Tonbridge, Kent in England · Wikipedia - 03Chiddingstone 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.
2.6 km · house museum in Kent, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Mary Magdalene
The Church of St Mary Magdalene is a parish church in the village of Cowden, in the district of Sevenoaks, Kent, England. It is part of the Church of England and falls within the Diocese of Chichester, the only parish church in Kent to do so.
3.8 km · church in Cowden, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church 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.
3.2 km · church in Penshurst, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church 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.
2.7 km · church in Chiddingstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Penshurst 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.
3.3 km · Cricket ground in Kent, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chiddingstone Hoath
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 23 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 54 km · London Stansted (STN), 81 km
- Stations
- Cowden railway station, 2.3 km · Ashurst railway station, 3.8 km · Hever railway station, 3.8 km
- London → Chiddingstone Hoath43 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £6–8
- London, Essex → Chiddingstone Hoath43 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Chiddingstone Hoath89 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £12–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Chiddingstone Hoath
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 Chiddingstone Hoath. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundScale 1:25,000 (4 cm:1 km, 2½ in:1 mi) would be fine, costing usually under £8.00 Cycling is very limited on Ashdown Forest land to the few public bridleways, although several groups are petitioning for more open access for off-road cycling however it is fully allowed on roads.
- Go nextEastbourne Petersfield South Downs Way, a popular walking path.
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Next door to Chiddingstone Hoath
Chiddingstone Hoath is 43 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Chiddingstonevillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK2.7 km
- Hevervillage and civil parish in Kent, England3.2 km
- Cowdenvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Fordcombevillage in Kent, England, UK3.5 km
- Markbeechvillage in Kent, England, UK2.3 km