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 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.
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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.
- 01Church 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 - 02St 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 - 03Church 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 - 04John 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 - 05The 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 - 06St 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 - 07St 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 - 08Foal 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 - 09Parish 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 - 10Matfield 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 Wood51 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £6–8
- London, Essex → Paddock Wood51 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £6–8
- Luton, Luton → Paddock Wood95 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £12–15
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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.
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If you know how people move in Paddock Wood – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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