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Godmersham

Godmersham is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England.

Godmersham
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The place

Godmersham is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village straddles the Great Stour river where it cuts through the North Downs and its land is approximately one third woodland, all in the far east and west on the escarpment of the North Downs. It is six miles north-east of Ashford on the A28 road midway between Ashford and Canterbury in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with the North Downs Way and Pilgrims' Way traversing the parish.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Godmersham

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 80 km · London Stansted (STN), 89 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 102 km
  • London → Godmersham
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Godmersham
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Godmersham
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Godmersham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA small airport with its own airline LyddAir which offers charter flights.

From Wikivoyage: Ashford (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

    169 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    357 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    392 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    631 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    666 km

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