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Istead Rise

Istead Rise is an Estate in the borough of Gravesham in Kent, England, 3 miles (5 km) south of Gravesend.

The place

Istead Rise is an Estate in the borough of Gravesham in Kent, England, 3 miles (5 km) south of Gravesend. It had a population of 3,437 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Istead Rise

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
    Cobham College

    Cobham College in the village of Cobham in Kent, England, was a chantry employing a college of five priests founded by in 1362 by John Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham, of nearby Cobham Hall, lord of the manor of Cobham, for the purpose of praying for the speedy passage of his soul through Purgatory and into Heaven.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed building in Cobham, Gravesham, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Owletts

    Owletts is a country house 0.8 miles to the northwest of the village of Cobham in Kent, England. It is a Grade II* listed building owned by the National Trust.

    3.1 km · country house in Cobham, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Gravesham Civic Centre

    Gravesham Civic Centre is a municipal building in Windmill Street in Gravesend, a town in Kent, in England. The building accommodates the offices and meeting place of Gravesham Borough Council.

    3.9 km · Municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bat and Ball Ground

    The Bat and Ball Ground is a cricket and sports ground in Gravesend in Kent. The ground was used as a first-class cricket venue by Kent County Cricket Club between 1849 and 1971.

    3.5 km · cricket and sports ground in Gravesend, Kent · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Longfield Chalk Bank

    Longfield Chalk Bank is a 2-hectare nature reserve in Longfield in Kent. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust.

    3.9 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Rectory Meadow

    Rectory Meadow is a 2.2-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Hartley in Kent. It is owned by Hartley Parish Council and managed by the council together with the North West Kent Countryside Project.

    3.7 km · park in United Kingdom · 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 Istead Rise

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 47 km · London Stansted (STN), 54 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 57 km
Stations
Meopham railway station, 2.2 km · Sole Street railway station, 3.1 km · Longfield railway station, 3.7 km · Longfield Halt railway station, 3.8 km · Gravesend Airport, 3.4 km
  • London → Istead Rise
    35 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £3.5–5
  • London, Essex → Istead Rise
    35 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £3.5–5
  • Luton, Luton → Istead Rise
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Istead Rise

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 Istead Rise. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    141 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    350 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    377 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    589 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    624 km

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

Around it

Next door to Istead Rise

Istead Rise is 35 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Graveshamnon-metropolitan district with borough status in Kent, England3.3 km
  • Hartleyvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK4 km
  • Cobhamvillage in Kent, England, UK3.8 km
  • Southfleetvillage and civil parish in Kent, England2.4 km
  • Longfieldvillage in the Dartford Borough of Kent, England3.5 km
  • Longfield and New Barncivil parish in Dartford, Kent2.8 km