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Hoath

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

Hoath
Hoath · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Church 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
  2. 02
    Wildwood 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
  3. 03
    Grove 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
  4. 04
    East 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
  5. 05
    Stodmarsh 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
  6. 06
    Ford 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 → Hoath
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £10–13
  • London, Essex → Hoath
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £10–13
  • Luton, Luton → Hoath
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    187 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    337 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    406 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    629 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    664 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hoath

  • Westberevillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Chisletvillage in Kent, England, UK2 km
  • Hersdenvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK2.2 km
  • Hernevillage in Kent, England, UK2.7 km
  • Herne and Broomfieldcivil parish in Kent, UK2.7 km
  • Upstreetvillage in Kent, United Kingdom2.7 km