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Markbeech

Markbeech is a village in the civil parish of Hever in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England.

The place

Markbeech is a village in the civil parish of Hever in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. The village is located on the northern ridges of the High Weald, nine miles (14 km) north-west of Tunbridge Wells.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Markbeech

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
    Hever Castle

    Hever Castle is located in the village Hever, Kent, near Edenbridge, 30 miles southeast of London, England. It began as a country house, built in the 13th century.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed country house in Hever, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chiddingstone Castle

    Chiddingstone Castle is situated in the village of Chiddingstone, near Edenbridge, Kent, England, 35 miles south-southeast of London and in the upper valley of the River Medway. The castle was built by the Streatfeild family and served as their seat from the early 16th century until the beginning of the 20th century when the family left the castle.

    3.3 km · house museum in Kent, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    How Green House

    How Green House is an architecturally important Arts and Crafts movement style country house near Hever in the Sevenoaks District of Kent. It was designed by Scottish architect Robert Weir Schultz and drawn by his assistant Cecil Wood.

    3.5 km · English country house · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary Magdalene

    The Church of St Mary Magdalene is a parish church in the village of Cowden, in the district of Sevenoaks, Kent, England. It is part of the Church of England and falls within the Diocese of Chichester, the only parish church in Kent to do so.

    2.5 km · church in Cowden, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Mary, Chiddingstone

    St. Mary the Virgin is a parish church in the united benefice of Chiddingstone, Penshurst, Chiddingstone Causeway and Fordcombe in the Anglican Diocese of Rochester.

    3.5 km · church in Chiddingstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Edenbridge Windmill

    Edenbridge Mill is a Grade II listed house converted tower mill in Edenbridge, Kent, England. It is on the west side of Mill Hill, just north of the hospital.

    4 km · tower mill in Edenbridge, Sevenoaks, Kent, England, 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 Markbeech

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 21 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 52 km · London Stansted (STN), 81 km
Stations
Cowden railway station, 1 km · Hever railway station, 2 km
  • London → Markbeech
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £4.5–6
  • London, Essex → Markbeech
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £4.5–6
  • Luton, Luton → Markbeech
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Markbeech

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundScale 1:25,000 (4 cm:1 km, 2½ in:1 mi) would be fine, costing usually under £8.00 Cycling is very limited on Ashdown Forest land to the few public bridleways, although several groups are petitioning for more open access for off-road cycling however it is fully allowed on roads.
  • Go nextEastbourne Petersfield South Downs Way, a popular walking path.

From Wikivoyage: Ashdown Forest, 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

    112 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    333 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    406 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    601 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    637 km

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

Around it

Next door to Markbeech

Markbeech is 41 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hevervillage and civil parish in Kent, England2 km
  • Chiddingstonevillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK3.7 km
  • Cowdenvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Chiddingstone Hoathhamlet in Kent, England, UK2.3 km
  • Marsh Greenhamlet in Kent, United Kingdom3.9 km