Funton

Worth seeing in and around Funton

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.

1. 01
   Priestfield Stadium

   Priestfield Stadium is a football stadium in Gillingham, Kent, England. It has been the home of Gillingham Football Club since the club's formation in 1893, and was also the temporary home of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club for two seasons during the 1990s.

   9.6 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Queenborough 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.

   5.3 km · concentric castle in Queenborough, Swale, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway

   The Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway is located near the villages of Wormshill and Bredgar in Kent, just south of Sittingbourne. It is a 2 ft narrow gauge railway about three-quarters mile in length.

   9.5 km · heritage railway in Kent, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Garrison Point Fort

   Garrison Point Fort is a former artillery fort situated at the end of the Garrison Point peninsula at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. Built in the 1860s in response to concerns about a possible French invasion, it was the last in a series of artillery batteries that had existed on the site since the mid-16th century.

   8.1 km · fort in Sheerness, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Grain Fort

   Grain Fort is a former artillery fort located just east of the village of Grain, Kent. It was constructed in the 1860s to defend the confluence of the Rivers Medway and Thames during a period of tension with France.

   8.7 km · fort at the mouth of the Medway, Kent, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Funton

Airports

London Stansted (STN), 65 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 67 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 81 km

Stations

Rainham railway station, 6.2 km · Newington railway station, 3.6 km · Queenborough railway station, 5.3 km · Teynham railway station, 9.2 km · Sheerness-on-Sea railway station, 8 km

• London → Funton

  58 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £6–8
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• London, Essex → Funton

  58 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £6–8
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• Luton, Luton → Funton

  52 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £5–7
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No local-transport research exists yet for Funton

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

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