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Kemsing

Kemsing is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England.

Kemsing
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The place

Kemsing is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. The parish lies on the scarp face of the North Downs, 20 miles south east of Central London and 4 miles (6 km) north east of Sevenoaks. Also in the parish there are the hamlets of Heaverham, 1 mile (2 km) to the east and Noah's Ark 0.5 miles (1 km) to the south. The population of the civil parish in 2001 was 4,014 persons, increasing to a population of 4,218 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kemsing

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
    Otford Castle

    Otford Palace, also known as the Archbishop's Palace, is situated in Otford, a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The village is located on the River Darent, which flows northward down its valley from its source in the North Downs.

    2.3 km · palace in Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kemsing Down

    Kemsing Down is a 16-hectare nature reserve north of Sevenoaks in Kent. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust.

    700 m · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dorton House

    Dorton House or Wildernesse House is a Grade II listed Georgian mansion house in Seal, Kent, near Sevenoaks; until 2013 it was used as the headquarters for the Royal London Society for the Blind and as housing for the blind and partially sighted children who attended its school. Later it was renovated into a retirement community.

    2.5 km · historic house in Seal, Kent · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Clere

    St Clere is a Grade I listed 17th-century country house in Kemsing, Kent, England. The house is built in brick in three storeys plus basement and attic.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed building in Kemsing, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Fackenden Down

    Fackenden Down is a 14-hectare nature reserve north of Sevenoaks in Kent. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust.

    2.7 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Otford to Shoreham Downs

    Otford to Shoreham Downs is a 145.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Kemsing and Eynesford in Kent, England. It is part of Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and part it is Fackenden Down, a nature reserve managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust These downs have woodland, scrub and species-rich chalk grassland, which has been traditionally managed by grazing.

    3.6 km · site in Kent, 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.

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Getting to Kemsing

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 34 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 51 km · London Stansted (STN), 64 km
Stations
Otford railway station, 2.1 km · Shoreham railway station, 3.7 km · Bat & Ball railway station, 2.9 km · Kemsing railway station, 1.9 km · Dunton Green railway station, 3.9 km
  • London → Kemsing
    33 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £4–6
  • London, Essex → Kemsing
    33 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £4–6
  • Luton, Luton → Kemsing
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kemsing

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 Kemsing. 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

    127 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    341 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    390 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    593 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    628 km

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Around it

Next door to Kemsing

Kemsing is 33 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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