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Cuxton

Cuxton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Medway, Kent in south-east England.

Cuxton
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The place

Cuxton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Medway, Kent in south-east England. It lies on the left bank of the River Medway in the North Downs. It is served by the A228, and Cuxton railway station on the Medway Valley line between Strood and Maidstone. A low valley leads up from the river to the hamlet of Lower Bush.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cuxton

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
    Rochester Castle

    Rochester Castle stands on the east bank of the River Medway in Rochester, Kent, South East England. The 12th-century keep or stone tower, which is the castle's most prominent feature, is one of the best preserved of its time in England or France.

    3.9 km · castle in Rochester, Kent, South East England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Medway Viaducts

    The Medway Viaducts are three bridges or viaducts that cross the River Medway between Cuxton and Borstal in north Kent, England. The two road bridges carry the M2 motorway carriageways.

    1.8 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cobham College

    Cobham College in the village of Cobham in Kent, England, was a chantry employing a college of five priests founded by in 1362 by John Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham, of nearby Cobham Hall, lord of the manor of Cobham, for the purpose of praying for the speedy passage of his soul through Purgatory and into Heaven.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed building in Cobham, Gravesham, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Manor of Cobham, Kent

    Cobham Hall is an English country house in the county of Kent, England. The grade I listed building is one of the largest and most important houses in Kent, re-built as an Elizabethan prodigy house by William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham.

    3.1 km · manor house in Kent · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Great Crabbles Wood

    Great Crabbles Wood is a 33-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Rochester in Kent. Most of the wood is mixed coppice, with sweet chestnut dominant and oak standards.

    3.5 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Nashenden Down

    Nashenden Down is a 55-hectare nature reserve on the southern outskirts of Rochester in Kent. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust, and is in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    2.7 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Fort Clarence

    Fort Clarence is a now defunct fortification that is located in Rochester, Kent, England.

    3.4 km · fort in Medway, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Temple Manor

    Temple Manor is a scheduled monument and grade I listed building in Strood, Kent. The Manor has been owned by various religious, national and farming owners over 600 years.

    3 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Medway, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Fort Borstal

    Fort Borstal was built as an afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, by convict labour. Construction started in 1875 but was suspended in 1885.

    2.8 km · fort in Medway, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St. Margaret's Church

    St Margaret's Church, Rochester is now a Chapel of Ease within the parish of St Peter with St Margaret, Rochester. Previously it was the parish church of St Margaret's Without.

    3.6 km · church in Rochester, Medway, 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.

Go there

Getting to Cuxton

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 51 km · London Stansted (STN), 59 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 64 km
Stations
Halling railway station, 2.6 km · Cuxton railway station, 800 m · Rochester Bridge railway station, 4 km
  • London → Cuxton
    43 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £4.5–6
  • London, Essex → Cuxton
    43 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £4.5–6
  • Luton, Luton → Cuxton
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cuxton

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    145 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    357 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    373 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    595 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    631 km

If you know how people move in Cuxton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Cuxton

Cuxton is 42 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Stroodtown in the unitary authority of Medway in South East England2.8 km
  • Luddesdownvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Cobhamvillage in Kent, England, UK3.8 km
  • Wouldhamvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK2.9 km
  • Hallingvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom2.7 km
  • Upper Bushvillage in Kent, United Kingdom1.1 km