Elmley
Elmley is the local name for the Isle of Elmley, in the civil parish of Minster-on-Sea, part of the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale district, in the county of Kent, England.
Elmley is the local name for the Isle of Elmley, in the civil parish of Minster-on-Sea, part of the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale district, in the county of Kent, England. It was also the name of a very late 19th century industrial village on the isle. Edward Hasted describes, in 1798, the isle as two-eighths of the Isle of Sheppey estimated as 11 miles by 8 miles. Its present national nature reserve covers more than the easily traceable area of the former isle by extending to the east, over Windmill Creek, one of two Sheppey inlets, former internal tidal channels.
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Worth seeing in and around Elmley
3 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.
- 01Queenborough Castle
Queenborough Castle, also known as Sheppey Castle, is a 14th-century castle, the remnants of which are in the town of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent in England. The castle and the associated planned town were built on the orders of King Edward III from 1361 and named in honour his wife, Queen Philippa.
3.4 km · concentric castle in Queenborough, Swale, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Town Hall
Queenborough Guildhall is a former municipal building in the High Street in Queenborough, Kent, England. The structure, which is currently used as a museum, is a Grade II listed building.
3.7 km · town hall in Queenborough, Swale, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Sheppey Crossing
The Sheppey Crossing is a bridge which carries the A249 road across the Swale, linking the Isle of Sheppey with the mainland of Kent. The four-lane crossing measures 21.5 m in width, at a height of 35 m over the water.
2 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Elmley
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 66 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 72 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 86 km
- Stations
- Queenborough railway station, 3.3 km · Swale railway station, 2 km · Brambledown Halt railway station, 3.9 km · East Minster railway station, 3.6 km · Kings Ferry Bridge North Halt railway station, 1.4 km
- London → Elmley15 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £1.5–2.5
- London, Essex → Elmley15 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £1.5–2.5
- Luton, Luton → Elmley56 km · quickest by road, 2h · £7–9
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No local-transport research exists yet for Elmley
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 Elmley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Elmley
- Queenboroughtown and civil parish on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent, England3.7 km
- Iwadevillage in Kent, England, UK3.7 km
- Halfway Housesvillage in Kent, England, UK3.3 km
- Minster-on-Seacivil parish in Swale, Kent, England2.7 km
- Rushendenvillage in Kent, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Queenborough-in-Sheppeymunicipal borough in England3.3 km