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Village in Kent, England · United Kingdom

# Godmersham

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

![Godmersham](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/St_Lawrence_Godmersham_2.jpg/3840px-St_Lawrence_Godmersham_2.jpg)

Godmersham · Wikimedia Commons

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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godmersham), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-godmersham) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Godmersham)
- London, Essex → Godmersham 82 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-essex-to-godmersham) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London%2C+Essex&to=Godmersham)
- Luton, Luton → Godmersham 120 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-godmersham) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=Godmersham)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Godmersham)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

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 in A small airport with its own airline LyddAir which offers charter flights.

From [Wikivoyage: Ashford (England)](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ashford_(England%29), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 169 km
2. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 357 km
3. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 392 km
4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 631 km
5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 666 km

If you know how people move in Godmersham – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cgodmersham&title=Godmersham&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fgodmersham), and the note gets an entry.

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