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Farningham

Farningham is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England.

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The place

Farningham is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located 3 miles (5 km) south-east of Swanley.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Farningham

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.

  1. 01
    Eynsford Castle

    Eynsford Castle is a ruined medieval fortification in Eynsford, Kent. Built on the site of an earlier Anglo-Saxon stone burh, the castle was constructed by William de Eynsford, probably between 1085 and 1087, to protect the lands of Lanfranc, the Archbishop of Canterbury, from Odo, the Bishop of Bayeux.

    1.2 km · castle, now ruinous, in Eynsford, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lullingstone Castle

    Lullingstone Castle is a historic manor house, set in an estate in the village of Lullingstone and the civil parish of Eynsford in the English county of Kent. It has been inhabited by members of the Hart Dyke family for twenty generations including current owner Tom Hart Dyke.

    3 km · historic manor house in the village of Lullingstone in England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of Saint Botolph, Lullingstone

    St Botolph's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Lullingstone, in Kent, England, situated on the lawn of Lullingstone Castle. It dates from the 14th century with later modifications, and it is a Grade I listed building.

    3 km · Grade I listed church in Lullingstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Franks Hall

    Franks Hall in Horton Kirby, Kent, is a large Elizabethan country house, completed in 1591. The Grade I listed building remains a private house.

    1.2 km · Grade I listed country house in Horton Kirby, 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.

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Getting to Farningham

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 38 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 48 km · London Stansted (STN), 56 km
Stations
Eynsford railway station, 2.3 km · Farningham Road railway station, 2.6 km · Lullingstone railway station, 1.9 km
  • London → Farningham
    29 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £3–4
  • London, Essex → Farningham
    29 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £3–4
  • Luton, Luton → Farningham
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Farningham

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 Farningham. 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

    132 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    341 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    386 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    586 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    621 km

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Around it

Next door to Farningham

Farningham is 28 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.