Fordcombe
Fordcombe is a village within the civil parish of Penshurst in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England.
Fordcombe is a village within the civil parish of Penshurst in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. The village is located on the northern slopes of the Weald, five miles (8 km) west of Royal Tunbridge Wells.
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Worth seeing in and around Fordcombe
5 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.
- 01Groombridge Place
Groombridge Place is a moated manor house in the village of Groombridge near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. It has become a tourist attraction, noted for its formal gardens and vineyards.
1.8 km · manor house in Speldhurst, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Paul's Church
St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church in Rusthall, Kent, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
3.8 km · church in Rusthall, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03The Picture House
Poundsbridge Manor, nicknamed "The Picture House", is an oak timber-framed house built in 1593 by John and Brian Durtnall for their father William, Rector of Penshurst from 1563 to 1596. Originally, it was called "Durtnolls" and it has an inscription "1593 WD ETA 69".
2.7 km · house in Penshurst, Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04High Rocks
High Rocks is a 3.2-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Tunbridge Wells in East Sussex and Kent. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
3.5 km · geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in England · Wikipedia - 05Spa Valley Railway
The Spa Valley Railway is a standard gauge heritage railway in the United Kingdom that runs from Tunbridge Wells West railway station in Royal Tunbridge Wells to High Rocks, Groombridge, and Eridge, where it links with the Oxted Line. It crosses the Kent and East Sussex border, covering a distance of 5 miles, along the former Wealden Line between Tunbridge Wells Central and Lewes.
3.9 km · heritage railway in southeast England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Fordcombe
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 26 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 58 km · London Stansted (STN), 84 km
- Stations
- Ashurst railway station, 2.2 km · High Rocks railway station, 3.2 km · Groombridge railway station, 2.4 km
- London → Fordcombe46 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £6–8
- London, Essex → Fordcombe46 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Fordcombe92 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £12–16
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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 Fordcombe
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 Fordcombe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundScale 1:25,000 (4 cm:1 km, 2½ in:1 mi) would be fine, costing usually under £8.00 Cycling is very limited on Ashdown Forest land to the few public bridleways, although several groups are petitioning for more open access for off-road cycling however it is fully allowed on roads.
- Go nextEastbourne Petersfield South Downs Way, a popular walking path.
From Wikivoyage: Ashdown Forest, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Fordcombe – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Fordcombe
Fordcombe is 47 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Speldhurstvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Groombridgevillage in East Sussex, England, UK2 km
- Rusthallvillage in Kent, England, UK3.6 km
- Ashurstvillage in Kent, United Kingdom1.1 km
- Langton Greenvillage in Kent, United Kingdom1.6 km
- Blackhamvillage in East Sussex, United Kingdom2.9 km