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Paddock Wood

Paddock Wood is a town and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Maidstone.

Paddock Wood
Paddock Wood · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Paddock Wood is a town and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Maidstone. At the 2011 Census it had a population of 8,253 falling to 8160 at the 2021 Census. Paddock Wood is a centre for hop growing.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Paddock Wood

10 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
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints Church in Tudeley, Kent, England, is the only church in the world that has all its windows in stained glass designed by Marc Chagall.

    4.9 km · Anglican church in Tudeley, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church, Hadlow

    St Mary's Church is the parish church in Hadlow, Kent, United Kingdom. The church is a Grade II* listed building.

    6 km · church in Hadlow, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Thomas à Becket, Capel

    The Church of St Thomas Becket is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Capel, Kent, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.3 km · church in Capel, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    John Brunt V.C.

    The John Brunt V.C. is a public house in Paddock Wood in Kent, England. Originally named The Kent Arms, on 3 September 1947 the pub was formally renamed John Brunt V.C. in honour of an English soldier, John Brunt, who won the Victoria Cross in the Second World War who spent his teenage years in the town.

    300 m · public house in Paddock Wood, Kent, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    The Hop Farm Country Park

    The Hop Farm is a 400-acre Country Park in Beltring, near East Peckham in the English county of Kent. The farm is over 450 years old and has the largest collection of oast houses in the world.

    2.6 km · country park in Kent, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Anselm's Catholic Church

    St Anselm's Church is a Catholic church which is part of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Pembury, Kent, England. It was originally founded in the 1960s as a chapel-of-ease later serving as a Mass Centre before becoming its own quasi-parish within the personal ordinariate in 2011, following a conversion of a large number of Anglicans in Royal Tunbridge Wells.

    6 km · church in Kent, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Andrew's Church, Paddock Wood

    St Andrew's Church is a joint Church of England and Methodist church in Paddock Wood, Kent, England.

    300 m · church in Paddock Wood, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Foal Hurst Wood

    Foal Hurst Wood is a 12.9-hectare Local Nature Reserve on the south-western outskirts of Paddock Wood in Kent. It is owned by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and managed by Paddock Wood Town Council.

    1.3 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Parish Church of All Saints

    All Saints Church is a parish church in Brenchley, Kent, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.3 km · church in Brenchley, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Matfield House

    Matfield House is a Grade I listed Georgian house in the village of Matfield, Kent, England. The house was built in 1728 in the Queen Anne style for Thomas Marchant, a yeoman farmer from Horsmonden and his heiress wife Mary.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed building in Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Paddock Wood

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 40 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 67 km · London Stansted (STN), 79 km
Stations
Paddock Wood railway station, 400 m · Yalding railway station, 5.5 km · Beltring railway station, 3.1 km · Horsmonden railway station, 5.7 km
  • London → Paddock Wood
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £6–8
  • London, Essex → Paddock Wood
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Paddock Wood
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Paddock Wood

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 Paddock Wood. 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

    131 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    353 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    390 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    611 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    646 km

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Around it

Next door to Paddock Wood

Paddock Wood is 51 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Pemburyvillage in Kent, England, UK5.9 km
  • East Peckhamvillage and civil parish in Kent, England3.5 km
  • Horsmondenvillage in Kent, England, UK5.3 km
  • Yaldingvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK5.8 km
  • Capelvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK3.5 km
  • Collier Streetvillage in Kent, England, UK4.8 km