Monks Horton
Monks Horton is a small civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England.
Monks Horton is a small civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. It is located 3 miles (5 km) north of Hythe. Within the civil parish are the hamlets of Horton and Broad Street. The parish is governed by a parish meeting, rather than a parish council, because of its small size. The name comes from there having been a medieval priory built here.
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Worth seeing in and around Monks Horton
3 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.
- 01Westenhanger Castle
Westenhanger Castle is a fortified manor house once owned by royalty, located next to Westenhanger railway station and the grandstand of Folkestone Racecourse in Kent. The castle has endured a period of steady decline to near ruination in recent years, but the current owners have engaged a programme of consolidation, conservation and restoration to the castle and adjoining buildings.
3 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Shepway, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Otterpool Quarry
Otterpool Quarry is a 10.2-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Hythe in Kent. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
3.6 km · limestone quarry now a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Kent, England · Wikipedia - 03Scot'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.
3.6 km · country house in Smeeth, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Monks Horton
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 84 km · London Stansted (STN), 101 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 110 km
- Stations
- Westenhanger railway station, 3.1 km
- London → Monks Horton91 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Monks Horton91 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Monks Horton131 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Monks Horton
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 Monks Horton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA small airport with its own airline LyddAir which offers charter flights.
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