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Pembury

Pembury is a large village in Kent, in the south east of England, with a population of 6,128 at the 2011 census.

Pembury
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The place

Pembury is a large village in Kent, in the south east of England, with a population of 6,128 at the 2011 census. It lies just to the north-east of Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pembury

8 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 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.

    3.7 km · church in Capel, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    200 m · church in Kent, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dunorlan Park

    Dunorlan Park is a park and grounds in Royal Tunbridge Wells, UK. Totalling approximately 78 acres and containing a 6-acre lake, the grounds were landscaped by Robert Marnock for Henry Reed, the merchant and philanthropist who owned the estate and the now-demolished house that once overlooked it.

    3 km · park in Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed building in Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Chapel Of Ease Of St Luke

    St Luke's Church is a parish church in the village of Matfield, Kent, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

    2.8 km · chapel in Brenchley, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Barnett's Wood

    Barnett's Wood is a 12.4-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Southborough, on the northern outskirts of Tunbridge Wells in Kent. It is owned by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and managed by Kent High Weald Project and the Friends of Barnett’s Wood.

    3.4 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Brenchley Wood

    Brenchley Wood is a 15-hectare nature reserve south of Paddock Wood in Kent. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust, and it is part of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    2.5 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hilbert Woods

    Hilbert Woods is a 14.3-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Tunbridge Wells in Kent. It is owned by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and managed by Kent High Weald Project and the Friends of Grosvenor and Hilbert Park.

    3.3 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Pembury

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 35 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 65 km · London Stansted (STN), 82 km
Stations
High Brooms railway station, 3.2 km
  • London → Pembury
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £6–8
  • London, Essex → Pembury
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Pembury
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pembury

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 Pembury. 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

    125 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    348 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    396 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

    647 km

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Around it

Next door to Pembury

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

  • Capelvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK3.6 km
  • Matfieldvillage in Kent, England, UK3 km
  • Hawkenburyvillage in the Borough of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom4 km
  • High Broomssuburb of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK3.2 km
  • Lamberhurst Quarterhamlet in Kent, England, UK4 km