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Plaxtol

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

Plaxtol
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Ightham 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
  2. 02
    Oxon 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
  3. 03
    Old 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
  4. 04
    Fairlawne

    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
  5. 05
    Dene 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
  6. 06
    Ivy 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
  7. 07
    One 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 → Plaxtol
    40 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £5–6
  • London, Essex → Plaxtol
    40 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £5–6
  • Luton, Luton → Plaxtol
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £11–14
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    129 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    346 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    390 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    600 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    635 km

If you know how people move in Plaxtol – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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