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Southfleet

Southfleet is a small village and civil parish in the borough of Dartford in Kent, England.

Southfleet
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The place

Southfleet is a small village and civil parish in the borough of Dartford in Kent, England. The village is located three miles southwest of Gravesend, while the parish includes within its boundaries the hamlets of Betsham and Westwood.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Southfleet

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
    Swanscombe Heritage Park

    The Swanscombe Skull Site is a 3.9-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserve in Swanscombe, Kent, England, now forming part of the broader Swanscombe Heritage Park. The site lies within Barnfield Pit, the most significant of several former gravel quarries that once supplied raw materials to the nearby Swanscombe Cement Works, and contains two Geological Conservation Review sites.

    3.6 km · geological site and nature reserve in Kent, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stonebridge Road

    Stonebridge Road is a multi-purpose stadium in Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent, England, also known as Morrow Stadium for sponsorship reasons. It is primarily used for football matches.

    3.7 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ebbsfleet Valley

    Ebbsfleet Valley is a new town and redevelopment area in Kent, South East England, and part of the Thames Gateway, southwest of Gravesend. Development is coordinated by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation.

    2.6 km · new town in Dartford, Kent, England, undergoing development as part of the Ebbsfleet Garden City project · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bat and Ball Ground

    The Bat and Ball Ground is a cricket and sports ground in Gravesend in Kent. The ground was used as a first-class cricket venue by Kent County Cricket Club between 1849 and 1971.

    3.8 km · cricket and sports ground in Gravesend, Kent · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    2.3 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Longfield Chalk Bank

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

    2.5 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Rectory Meadow

    Rectory Meadow is a 2.2-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Hartley in Kent. It is owned by Hartley Parish Council and managed by the council together with the North West Kent Countryside Project.

    2.8 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.

Go there

Getting to Southfleet

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 46 km · London Stansted (STN), 52 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 54 km
Stations
Ebbsfleet International railway station, 3 km · Northfleet railway station, 3.3 km · Swanscombe railway station, 3.8 km · Longfield railway station, 2.6 km · Longfield Halt railway station, 2 km
  • London → Southfleet
    33 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £3.5–4.5
  • London, Essex → Southfleet
    33 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £3.5–4.5
  • Luton, Luton → Southfleet
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Southfleet

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 Southfleet. 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

    139 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    348 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    378 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    586 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    622 km

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

Around it

Next door to Southfleet

Southfleet is 32 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Northfleettown in the Borough of Gravesham in Kent, England3.5 km
  • Hartleyvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK3.5 km
  • Beanvillage in Kent, England, UK2.7 km
  • Swanscombesmall town in the Dartford Borough of Kent, England, United Kingdom4 km
  • Longfieldvillage in the Dartford Borough of Kent, England2.5 km
  • Swanscombe and Greenhithecivil parish in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England3.9 km