Hawkhurst
Hawkhurst is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.
Hawkhurst is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The village is located close to the border with East Sussex, around 12 miles (19 km) south-east of Royal Tunbridge Wells and within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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Worth seeing in and around Hawkhurst
2 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.
- 01Sandhurst War Memorial
Sandhurst War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the village of Sandhurst in Kent, south-eastern England, close to the border with East Sussex. The memorial is one of fifteen War Crosses by Sir Edwin Lutyens and arguably the one with the most elaborate setting.
3.9 km · World War I memorial in Sandhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Collingwood Nature Reserve
Collingwood is a 3-hectare nature reserve south of Hawkhurst in Kent. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust.
1.5 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hawkhurst
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 50 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 83 km · London Stansted (STN), 95 km
- Stations
- Hawkhurst railway station, 2 km
- London → Hawkhurst68 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £8–11
- London, Essex → Hawkhurst68 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Hawkhurst113 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £14–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Hawkhurst
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 Hawkhurst. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThey continue to Ashford, then either to Canterbury West, Minster and Ramsgate, or to Folkestone and Dover (for Channel ferries).
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If you know how people move in Hawkhurst – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Hawkhurst
- Sandhurstvillage in Kent, England4 km
- Beal's Greenhamlet in Kent, England, UK1.2 km
- Parsonage Woodarea of woodland in Benenden, Kent, United Kingdom3.8 km