Eastry
Eastry is a village and civil parish in the Dover district, in Kent, England, around 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) southwest of Sandwich.
Eastry is a village and civil parish in the Dover district, in Kent, England, around 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) southwest of Sandwich. It was voted "Kent Village of the Year 2005". The parish includes the hamlets of Heronden and Selson. In 2011 the parish had a population of 2492.
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Worth seeing in and around Eastry
4 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.
- 01St Clement's Church, Knowlton
St Clement's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Knowlton, Kent, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
2.8 km · church in Knowlton, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery
Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery is a place of burial that was used from the sixth to the eighth centuries CE. It is located adjacent to the village of Finglesham, near Sandwich in Kent, South East England. Belonging to the Anglo-Saxon period, it was part of the much wider tradition of burial in Early Anglo-Saxon England.
2.8 km · archaeological site in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Knowlton Court
Knowlton Court is a Grade I listed manor house near Sandwich, Kent, England that dates back to the Elizabethan period. The present front façade in the Queen Anne style, was added in 1715.
2.9 km · Grade I listed English country house in Dover, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Ham Fen
Ham Fen is a 41-hectare nature reserve south of Sandwich in Kent. It is one of Kent Wildlife Trust's nature reserves and is being extended in 2018 by an extra 33 acres.
2.3 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Eastry
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 103 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 104 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 110 km
- Stations
- Sandwich railway station, 3.9 km · Knowlton railway station, 3 km · Ash Town railway station, 3.9 km · Roman Road railway station, 2.8 km · Sandwich Road railway station, 4 km
- London → Eastry104 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £11–14
- London, Essex → Eastry104 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £11–14
- Luton, Luton → Eastry138 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £16–22
- 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 Eastry
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 Eastry. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundAirport Connections () offers luxury car and minibus connections to Kent International Airport.
- Go nextDover is also the main port in South-east England with cross-channel ferry services to Calais, Boulogne and Oostende.
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