Hoath
Hoath is a semi-rural village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury local government district.

Hoath is a semi-rural village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury local government district. The hamlets of Knaves Ash, Maypole, Ford, Old Tree, Shelvingford and Stoney Acre are included in the parish.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Hoath
6 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.
- 01Church of St Mary the Virgin, Reculver
The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Reculver, is an Anglican church on Reculver Lane in the village of Hillborough, in the parish of Reculver, in north-eastern Kent, England. Built between 1876 and 1878, it is the second such church on its site.
3.9 km · church building in Hillborough, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Wildwood Discovery Park
Wildwood Trust is a woodland discovery park in Herne. It features over fifty species of native British animals and located along the main road A291 between Herne Bay and Canterbury.
3.1 km · zoo in Kent · Wikipedia - 03Grove Ferry Picnic Area
Grove Ferry is place near Upstreet, Kent, England, on the site of an old hand-drawn ferry that once crossed the River Stour here.
3.4 km · park in Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04East Blean Woods
East Blean Woods is a 151.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Herne Bay in Kent. It is also a National Nature Reserve a Special Area of Conservation and a Nature Conservation Review site.
1.5 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 05Stodmarsh SSSI
Stodmarsh SSSI is a 623.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Stodmarsh, north-east of Canterbury in Kent. Parts of it are a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, a National Nature Reserve, a Ramsar internationally important wetland site, a Special Area of Conservation and a Special Protection Area under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.
3 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 06Ford Palace
Ford Palace was a residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury at Ford, about 6.6 miles north-east of Canterbury and 2.6 miles south-east of Herne Bay, in the parish of Hoath in the county of Kent in south-eastern England. The earliest structural evidence for the palace dates it to about 1300, and the earliest written references to it date to the 14th century.
1.6 km · ruined palace in England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hoath
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 89 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 96 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 114 km
- Stations
- Grove Ferry and Upstreet railway station, 3.2 km
- London → Hoath91 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £10–13
- London, Essex → Hoath91 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £10–13
- Luton, Luton → Hoath125 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £15–20
- 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 Hoath
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 Hoath. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIt also gives advice on how best to see the city by bike, having put together several good guides to local rides, including on road, off road, and dedicated path routes.
From Wikivoyage: Canterbury (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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