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South Darenth

South Darenth is a village in the civil parish of Horton Kirby and South Darenth in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England.

The place

South Darenth is a village in the civil parish of Horton Kirby and South Darenth in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located 4.2 miles (6.8 km) east of Swanley and 4.4 miles (7.1 km) south of Dartford.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around South Darenth

4 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 Margaret of Antioch, Darenth

    The Church of St Margaret of Antioch at Darenth, Kent, is a church with Norman origins thought to be the third oldest in Kent and the sixth oldest in the United Kingdom. It is a Grade I listed building.

    1.8 km · Grade I listed church in Darenth, Dartford, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Franks Hall

    Franks Hall in Horton Kirby, Kent, is a large Elizabethan country house, completed in 1591. The Grade I listed building remains a private house.

    1.8 km · Grade I listed country house in Horton Kirby, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Beacon Wood Country Park

    Beacon Wood Country Park is a public woodland in Bean near Dartford, in Kent, England. It was previously an industrial claypit then re-claimed as woodland park open to the public, currently owned by Tarmac.

    3.8 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Longfield Chalk Bank

    Longfield Chalk Bank is a 2-hectare nature reserve in Longfield in Kent. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust.

    3.6 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to South Darenth

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 41 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 49 km · London Stansted (STN), 54 km
Stations
Longfield railway station, 3.9 km · Farningham Road railway station, 600 m · Longfield Halt railway station, 3.7 km
  • London → South Darenth
    28 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £3–4.5
  • London, Essex → South Darenth
    28 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £3–4.5
  • Luton, Luton → South Darenth
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for South Darenth

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 South Darenth. 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

    134 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    343 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    383 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    585 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    620 km

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

Around it

Next door to South Darenth

South Darenth is 28 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.