Shepherdswell
Shepherdswell is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Shepherdswell with Coldred, in the Dover district of Kent, England.
Shepherdswell is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Shepherdswell with Coldred, in the Dover district of Kent, England. In 2011 it had a population of 1630.
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Worth seeing in and around Shepherdswell
2 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.
- 01All Saints Church, Waldershare
All Saints Church is a redundant Anglican church in Waldershare, Kent, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.8 km · church in Waldershare, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02East Kent Railway
The East Kent Railway is a heritage railway in Kent, England. It is located at Shepherdswell station on the London and Chatham to Dover mainline.
1.9 km · heritage railway in southern England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shepherdswell
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 99 km · London Stansted (STN), 104 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 115 km
- Stations
- Snowdown railway station, 3.4 km · Shepherds Well railway station, 200 m · Eythorne railway station, 2.6 km · Shepherdswell (EKLR) railway station, 300 m
- London → Shepherdswell101 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £10–14
- London, Essex → Shepherdswell101 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £10–14
- Luton, Luton → Shepherdswell138 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £16–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Shepherdswell
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 Shepherdswell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inNational Express operates the 007 coach service from London Victoria Coach Station to Dover Pencester Road in the town, about from the ferry port.
- Get in{{go | name | url | address 51.126156 | long west of the central shopping area, and about a walk from the ferry port | phone | hours | wikidata=Q2666521 | content=The only remaining station in Dover.
- Get inThere is no shuttle bus between the station and the ferry port, so you will have to walk the roughly 1½ miles (2.25 km) or get a taxi.
- Get inRegular ferry services operate to Dover from Calais and Dunkirk.
- Get inThe ferry between France and Dover costs around €40 each way if on foot, and around €100 each way for a car with two passengers, although big discounts are available if booked in advance or with special offers.
From Wikivoyage: Dover (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Shepherdswell
- Eythornevillage and civil parish in Kent, UK2.7 km
- Lyddenvillage in Kent, England, UK2.5 km
- Woottonvillage in Kent, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Shepherdswell with Coldredcivil parish in Dover, Kent, England600 m
- Coldredvillage in Kent, England, UK1.6 km
- Barfrestonehamlet in Kent, England, UK2.2 km