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Great Chart

Great Chart is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Great Chart with Singleton, in the Ashford borough of Kent, England.

The place

Great Chart is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Great Chart with Singleton, in the Ashford borough of Kent, England. The parish is split between the ancient village of Great Chart and the modern Singleton neighbourhood on the western outskirts of Ashford. The village centre of Great Chart is 2 miles (3.2 km) from the town centre. In 1961 the parish had a population of 969.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Chart

8 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
    Christ Church, Ashford

    Christ Church is in the town of Ashford, Kent, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ashford, the archdeaconry of Maidstone, and the diocese of Canterbury.

    2.3 km · grade II listed church in Ashford, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Godinton House

    Godinton House is a stately home in the parish of Great Chart, owned by a non-profit-making trust.

    2.1 km · Grade I listed country house in Great Chart with Singleton, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ashford Designer Outlet

    The Ashford Designer Outlet is a shopping centre in Ashford, Kent, England. The McArthurGlen Ashford Designer Outlet was designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership and engineers Buro Happold, and opened in March 2000.

    2.9 km · Designer shopping centre based in Ashford, Kent · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ashford Steam Centre

    Ashford Steam Centre was a short-lived railway museum at Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom. It was located at the former engine shed that was situated east of Ashford railway station.

    2.8 km · closed railway museum in Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ashford Warren and Hoads Wood

    Ashford Warren and Hoads Wood is a 34.5-hectare nature reserve north of Ashford in Kent. It is owned by Ashford Borough Council and managed by Kent Wildlife Trust.

    2.7 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Mary's Parish Church, Ashford

    St Mary's Parish Church, also known as the Church of St Mary the Virgin, in Ashford, Kent, England, dates to the late 13th century. It is a Grade I listed.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed church in Ashford, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hoad's Wood

    Hoad's Wood is an 80.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Ashford in Kent. Natural England described the woodland thus: "This site is a good example of a pedunculate oak-hornbeam woodland on Wealden Clay [comprising] mainly hornbeam coppice-with-standards and oakhazel woodland with some sweet chestnut coppice.

    3.1 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in Kent, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Ashford Community Woodland

    Ashford Community Woodland is a 13.8-hectare Local Nature Reserve on the western outskirts of Ashford in Kent. It is owned and managed by Ashford Borough Council.

    600 m · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Great Chart

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 71 km · London Stansted (STN), 93 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 97 km
  • London → Great Chart
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £8–11
  • London, Essex → Great Chart
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £8–11
  • Luton, Luton → Great Chart
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Chart

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 Great Chart. 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

    158 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    369 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    384 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    632 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    668 km

If you know how people move in Great Chart – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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