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Mersham

Mersham is a mostly agricultural large village and civil parish near Ashford in Kent, England.

Mersham
Mersham · Dean Wolstenholme the younger
The place

Mersham is a mostly agricultural large village and civil parish near Ashford in Kent, England. The population of the civil parish includes the area of Cheesman's Green now known as Finberry.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mersham

2 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
    Poulton Wood

    Poulton Wood is a 10.2-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Aldington, south-east of Ashford in Kent. It is owned and managed by Canterbury Oast Trust.

    3.2 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Scot's Hall

    Scot's Hall was a country house in Smeeth, between Ashford and Folkestone in southeast England. It was the property of a gentry family, the Scotts.

    2.5 km · country house in Smeeth, 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 Mersham

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 78 km · London Stansted (STN), 98 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 105 km
Stations
Smeeth railway station, 1.8 km · RAF Kingsnorth, 3.5 km
  • London → Mersham
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Mersham
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Mersham
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mersham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA small airport with its own airline LyddAir which offers charter flights.

From Wikivoyage: Ashford (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

    164 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    365 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    391 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    638 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    674 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mersham

  • Aldingtonvillage and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England2.8 km
  • Smeethvillage in Kent, England, UK1.9 km
  • Sevingtonvillage in Sevington with Finberry, Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom2.1 km
  • Brabourne Leesvillage in Kent, England, UK2.7 km
  • Willesboroughvillage in Kent, England, UK3.5 km
  • Aldington Frithvillage in Kent, United Kingdom2.9 km