Plaxtol
Plaxtol is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England.

Plaxtol is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. The village is located around 5 miles (8 km) north of Tonbridge and the same distance east of Sevenoaks. In the 2011 Census, the parish had a population of 1,117.
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Worth seeing in and around Plaxtol
7 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.
- 01Ightham Mote
Ightham Mote, at Ightham, is a medieval moated manor house in Kent, England. The architectural writer John Newman describes it as "the most complete small medieval manor house in the county".
1.8 km · historic house, now museum, on a moated site in Ightham, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Oxon Hoath
Oxon Hoath is a Grade II* listed Châteauesque-style former manor house with 73 acres of grounds at West Peckham, Kent. The spellings Oxenhoath, Oxen Hoath and Oxonhoath are common alternatives.
3.2 km · manor house in Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Old Soar Manor
Old Soar Manor is an English Heritage property, owned and maintained by the National Trust. Located near Plaxtol, Kent, England, it is a small 13th century stone manor house.
1.8 km · historic house museum in Plaxtol, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Fairlawne
Fairlawne is a Grade I listed house in Shipbourne, Kent, England, about 30 miles southeast of central London. The Fairlawne Estate is extensive and stretches to Plaxtol.
800 m · Grade I listed house in Plaxtol, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Dene Park
Dene Park is a Victorian mansion house and estate in the parish of Hadlow, Kent, United Kingdom. It served as the site of the Thomas Delarue School between 1955 and 1965.
3.3 km · country house in Hadlow, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, England · Wikipedia - 06Ivy Hatch Nature Reserve
Ivy Hatch Nature Reserve in Ivy Hatch, north of Tonbridge in Kent, is a 0.5-hectare reserve managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust. Several streams run through this small site, and there are many wetland plants, including sphagnum moss.
1.8 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07One Tree Hill and Bitchet Common
One Tree Hill and Bitchet Common is a 79.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Sevenoaks in Kent. It is in Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and One Tree Hill is managed by the National Trust This site has mixed woodland on the Lower Greensand, some of it of ancient origin.
3.5 km · 79.2-hectare biological site · Wikipedia
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Getting to Plaxtol
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 36 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 57 km · London Stansted (STN), 70 km
- Stations
- Borough Green & Wrotham railway station, 3.8 km
- London → Plaxtol40 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £5–6
- London, Essex → Plaxtol40 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £5–6
- Luton, Luton → Plaxtol85 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £11–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Plaxtol
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 Plaxtol. 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 Plaxtol – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Plaxtol
Plaxtol is 40 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ighthamvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK2.9 km
- Borough Greenvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK3.7 km
- Shipbournevillage in Kent, UK1.3 km
- West Peckhamvillage in Kent, England, UK3 km
- Seal Chartvillage in Kent, England, UK3.9 km
- Crouchhamlet in Tonbridge and Malling district, Kent, England, UK2.6 km