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Keston

Keston is a village in Greater London, England, located within the London Borough of Bromley.

Keston
Keston · Chris W. Braunschweiger
The place

Keston is a village in Greater London, England, located within the London Borough of Bromley. Until 1965 it was within the historic county of Kent. It is part suburban, part rural in nature and lies on the edge of Hayes Common, and just beyond London's urban sprawl to the south of Bromley Common. It includes the small hamlet of Nash to the southwest. The northern, more suburban part of Keston is sometimes referred to as Keston Mark.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Keston

8 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
    Hayes Lane

    Hayes Lane, currently known as the Copperjax Community Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Bromley, Greater London, England. Located between Bromley town centre and Hayes, it is the home of Bromley Football Club and London City Lionesses.

    3.1 km · association football stadium in England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church, Downe

    St Mary's Church in the village of Downe, Bromley is the Church of England Parish Church for the parish of Downe. It is a Grade II* listed building, which dates from the 13th century.

    3.5 km · church in Downe, London (historically Kent) · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    High Elms Country Park

    High Elms Country Park is an extensive 250-acre public park on the North Downs in Farnborough in the London Borough of Bromley. It is a Local Nature Reserve, and together with the neighbouring Downe Bank, a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

    3.6 km · public park in Greater London · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary the Virgin, Hayes, Bromley

    St Mary the Virgin is a Gothic church in South London, built in the 12th century but with notable Gothic Revival modifications and additions in the mid-Victorian period to the designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott and his son John Oldrid Scott. It is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

    1.9 km · church in Hayes, London Borough of Bromley · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Norman Park

    Norman Park is a recreation ground in Bromley, England. It has a playground and athletics track, and hosts events such as a music festivals, weekly organised Parkruns and yearly car shows.

    2.8 km · recreation ground in the London Borough of Bromley, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    London South East Colleges

    Bromley College of Further and Higher Education, trading as London South East Colleges, is a large college of further education and higher education operating in south-east London, England. It is a partner college of six of the twelve schools of the University of Greenwich.

    2.8 km · college in Bromley, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Holwood House

    Holwood House is a 25,060-square-foot country house in Keston, near Hayes, in the London Borough of Bromley, England. The house was designed by Decimus Burton, built between 1823 and 1826 and is in the Greek Revival style.

    2 km · Grade I listed English country house in London Borough of Bromley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Wickham Court

    Wickham Court is a semi-fortified country house in West Wickham, Bromley, a borough of south-east London and historically and traditionally part of the county of Kent. The house dates from the time of Henry VII and is a Grade I listed building.

    2.2 km · country house in London Borough of Bromley, UK · 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 Keston

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 28 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 36 km · London Stansted (STN), 60 km
Stations
Hayes railway station, 1.9 km · King Henry's Drive, 3.8 km · West Wickham railway station, 3.6 km
  • London, Essex → Keston
    20 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £2–3
  • Luton, Luton → Keston
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–14
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Keston
    182 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · £23–30
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Keston

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inWhile the runway is usable by aircraft up to Boeing 737/Airbus A320 size, it is prohibited for airline operators to sell tickets for flights in and out of the airport, thus there are no scheduled or holiday charter flights from the airport.

From Wikivoyage: London/South, 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

    120 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    327 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    398 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    580 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    615 km

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

Around it

Next door to Keston

Keston is 19 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Downevillage in the London Borough of Bromley, England, UK3.5 km
  • Farnborougharea of London, within London Borough of Bromley3.3 km
  • Hayesarea in the London Borough of Bromley, England, UK2.1 km
  • New Addingtonarea in the London Borough of Croydon, England, UK3.8 km
  • West Wickhamsuburban area in the London Borough of Bromley in England3.6 km
  • Bromley Commonneighbourhood in Bromley, London, UK2.5 km