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Chislehurst

Chislehurst is an affluent suburban district of south-east London, England, in the London Borough of Bromley.

Chislehurst
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The place

Chislehurst is an affluent suburban district of south-east London, England, in the London Borough of Bromley. It lies east of Bromley, south-west of Sidcup and north-west of Orpington, 10 miles (16 km) south-east of Charing Cross. Before the creation of Greater London in 1965, it was in Kent. According to the 2021 census, Chislehurst has a population of 15,600.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chislehurst

10 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
    Bromley Town Hall

    Bromley Town Hall is a municipal building in Tweedy Road, Bromley, London. Built in 1906, it is a Grade II listed building.

    4 km · town hall in Bromley, Greater London, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Foots Cray Place

    Foots Cray Place was one of the four country houses built in England in the 18th century to a design inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra near Vicenza. Built in 1754 near Sidcup, Kent, Foots Cray Place was demolished in 1950 after a fire in 1949.

    3.5 km · country house in London Borough of Bexley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bird College

    BIRD Conservatoire is an independent performing arts college, located in Sidcup, South East London, in the London Borough of Bexley. The college was founded as a dance school by Doreen Bird in 1946 and now provides specialist vocational training in dance and musical theatre, at further and higher education level.

    2.8 km · performing arts college in London, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Grove Park Cemetery

    Grove Park Cemetery is a cemetery in Chinbrook, Grove Park in the London Borough of Lewisham, that opened in 1935.

    3.1 km · cemetery in Lewisham, London · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    London South East Colleges

    Bromley College of Further and Higher Education, trading as London South East Colleges, is a large college of further education and higher education operating in south-east London, England. It is a partner college of six of the twelve schools of the University of Greenwich.

    3.9 km · college in Bromley, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Jubilee Country Park

    Jubilee Country Park is a 62-acre public park in Petts Wood in the London Borough of Bromley. It is a Local Nature Reserve and a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation.

    2.4 km · park in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Chinbrook Meadows

    Chinbrook Meadows is a park in southeast London, England, one of Lewisham's public open spaces. It is located between Chinbrook and Grove Park in the London Borough of Lewisham adjacent to the boundary with the London Borough of Bromley.

    3.8 km · park in London Borough of Lewisham, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Kemnal Park Cemetery & Memorial Gardens

    Kemnal Park Cemetery & Memorial Gardens is a privately owned cemetery in London that was opened in October 2013 by the Mayor of Bromley, Cllr Ernest Noad. It comprises 55 acres in total and in addition to the available 30,000 burial plots, features a garden of remembrance, a non-denominational chapel and car parking.

    1.8 km · burial ground in London · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Frognal House

    Frognal House is a Jacobean mansion in London, England, standing on the border of Sidcup in the London Borough of Bexley, and Chislehurst, in the London Borough of Bromley. It was built in the early 16th century.

    2.2 km · mansion in London · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Ruxley Gravel Pits

    Ruxley Gravel Pits is an 18.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ruxley, Orpington, in the London Borough of Bromley, and originally dug between 1929 and 1951. It is also a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation.

    2.9 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ruxley, Orpington · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Chislehurst

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 34 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 38 km · London Stansted (STN), 54 km
Stations
Bickley railway station, 2.6 km · Petts Wood railway station, 2.6 km · St Mary Cray railway station, 2.9 km · Sidcup railway station, 3.1 km · Elmstead Woods railway station, 2.2 km
  • London, Essex → Chislehurst
    17 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £2–2.5
  • Luton, Luton → Chislehurst
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £10–13
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Chislehurst
    179 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · £22–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chislehurst

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 Chislehurst. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextPopularly known as the Garden of England due to its green landscape, the county includes a number of attractions that could be included on day trips outside of the capital.
  • Go nextFrom the Greenwich Peninsula, take the IFS Cloud Cable Car (formerly Emirates Air Line) – the UK's first urban cable car.

From Wikivoyage: London/Greenwich, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    126 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    331 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    392 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    577 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    613 km

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Around it

Next door to Chislehurst

Chislehurst is 18 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • London Borough of Bromleyborough in the London Region in England3.9 km
  • Bromleylarge suburban district of south east London, England4 km
  • Sidcupsuburban district of south-east London, England, primarily in the London Borough of Bexley2.5 km
  • Bickleydistrict of Bromley, London, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • St Mary Craydistrict of the London Borough of Bromley3.2 km
  • Albany Parkarea in the London Borough of Bexley, England, UK2.5 km