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Shirkoak

Shirkoak is a hamlet in the civil parish of Woodchurch, southwest of the town of Ashford in Kent, England.

Shirkoak
Shirkoak · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Shirkoak is a hamlet in the civil parish of Woodchurch, southwest of the town of Ashford in Kent, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shirkoak

One place 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
    Stone Wood

    Stone Wood is a nature reserve south-west of Shadoxhurst in Kent. It is managed by Kent Wildlife Trust.

    2.3 km · park in United Kingdom · 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.

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Getting to Shirkoak

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 67 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 96 km · London Stansted (STN), 96 km
  • London → Shirkoak
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Shirkoak
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Shirkoak
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shirkoak

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 Shirkoak. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThey continue to Ashford, then either to Canterbury West, Minster and Ramsgate, or to Folkestone and Dover (for Channel ferries).

From Wikivoyage: Tenterden, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    152 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    376 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    380 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    634 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    670 km

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

Around it

Next door to Shirkoak

  • Shadoxhurstvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Woodchurchvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK1.8 km
  • Brattleneighbourhood of Woodchurch, Kent, England2.2 km