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Elmstone

Elmstone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Preston, in the Dover district, in East Kent, England.

Elmstone
Elmstone · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Elmstone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Preston, in the Dover district, in East Kent, England. It is situated between Canterbury and Sandwich. The Domesday Book of 1086 records Elmstone as 'Aelvetone'. In 1086 the recorded population was 3 households. In 1931 the parish had a population of 117. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Preston, part also went to Wingham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Elmstone

6 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
    All Saints Church, West Stourmouth

    All Saints Church, West Stourmouth, is a redundant Anglican church in the civil parish of Stourmouth, 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.

    2.9 km · church in West Stourmouth, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church, Wingham

    St Mary's Church, Wingham, is an Anglican parish church in Wingham, Kent. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

    3.4 km · church in Wingham, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wingham Wildlife Park

    Wingham Wildlife Park is a medium-sized wildlife park situated near Wingham, Kent, United Kingdom where it covers an area of 26 acres. In 2011, the species count at the park reached 180 species, growing to over 200 in 2013 covering fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and birds.

    2 km · zoo in Kent, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Elmstone Church

    Elmstone Church is an Anglican church in the village of Elmstone in Kent, England. The church dates back to the 13th century, and was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1963.

    300 m · church building in Elmstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Preston Marshes

    Preston Marshes is a 43.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Canterbury in Kent. This site in the valley of the River Little Stour is dominated by common reed, with areas of willow scrub and pasture.

    3 km · site in east of Canterbury in Kent · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Canon Cottage The Old Canonry

    Wingham is a village and civil parish in the Dover District of Kent, England. It contains 98 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed building in Wingham, Kent, England, United Kingdom · 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 Elmstone

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 96 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 101 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 114 km
Stations
Ash Town railway station, 3 km · Staple railway station, 2.8 km · Wingham (Canterbury Road) railway station, 3.8 km · Wingham Colliery railway station, 3.3 km · Wingham Town railway station, 3.6 km
  • London → Elmstone
    6 km · quickest by road, 33 min · £0.5–1
  • London, Essex → Elmstone
    6 km · quickest by road, 33 min · £0.5–1
  • Luton, Luton → Elmstone
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £5–7
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Elmstone

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundIt also gives advice on how best to see the city by bike, having put together several good guides to local rides, including on road, off road, and dedicated path routes.

From Wikivoyage: Canterbury (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    191 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    336 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    412 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    636 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    671 km

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

Around it

Next door to Elmstone

  • Winghamvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK3.2 km
  • Stourmouthcivil parish in Kent, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Ashvillage and civil parish in the Dover district of east Kent, England2.9 km
  • Staplevillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK3.5 km
  • Prestonvillage near Wingham, Dover, Kent, England1.7 km
  • Plucks Gutterhamlet in Kent, United Kingdom3.4 km