Staplehurst
Staplehurst is a village and civil parish in the borough of Maidstone in Kent, England, 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Maidstone and with a population of 6,700.
Staplehurst is a village and civil parish in the borough of Maidstone in Kent, England, 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Maidstone and with a population of 6,700. The village lies on the route of a Roman road, which is now incorporated into the course of the A229. The name Staplehurst comes from the Old English 'stapol' meaning a 'post, pillar' and 'hyrst', as a 'wooded hill'; therefore, 'wooded-hill at a post', a possible reference to a boundary marker at the position of All Saints' church atop the hill along the road from Maidstone to Cranbrook. The parish includes the hamlet of Hawkenbury.
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Worth seeing in and around Staplehurst
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.
- 01All Saints Church, Staplehurst
All Saints Church is a parish church in Staplehurst, Kent, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
600 m · Grade I listed church in Staplehurst, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Staplehurst
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 52 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 78 km · London Stansted (STN), 83 km
- Stations
- Staplehurst railway station, 800 m · RAF Staplehurst, 1.3 km
- London → Staplehurst61 km · quickest by road, 2h · £8–10
- London, Essex → Staplehurst61 km · quickest by road, 2h · £8–10
- Luton, Luton → Staplehurst104 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Staplehurst
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 Staplehurst. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIt is signed throughout although its quality is variable, with a mix of cycle tracks, quiet roads and a few off-road sections.
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Next door to Staplehurst
- Frittendena village located in Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Hawkenburyvillage in the Borough of Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom3.5 km
- Milebushhamlet in Kent, England, UK4 km