Sutton Valence
Sutton Valence is a village about five miles (8 km) SE of Maidstone, Kent, England on the A274 road going south to Headcorn and Tenterden.
Sutton Valence is a village about five miles (8 km) SE of Maidstone, Kent, England on the A274 road going south to Headcorn and Tenterden. It is on the Greensand Ridge overlooking the Vale of Kent and Weald. St Mary's Church is on the west side of the village on Chart Road, close to the junction of the High Street with the A274. Another landmark is Sutton Valence Castle on the east side of the village, of which only the ruins of the 12th-century keep remain, under the ownership of English Heritage.
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Worth seeing in and around Sutton Valence
3 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.
- 01Sutton Valence Castle
Sutton Valence Castle is a ruined medieval fortification in the village of Sutton Valence in Kent, England. Overlooking a strategic route to the coast, the original castle probably comprised an inner and an outer bailey and a protective barbican, with a three-storey high keep on its southern side.
300 m · castle in Sutton Valence, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02All Saints Church, Ulcombe
All Saints is a parish church in Ulcombe, Kent. It was begun in the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building.
3.5 km · church in Ulcombe · Wikipedia - 03St Peter's and St Paul's Church, East Sutton
St Peter's and St Paul's Church is a parish church in Church Lane, East Sutton, Kent dedicated to saints Peter and Paul. It was begun in the mid-13th century or earlier and additions were made in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.
1.6 km · Grade I listed church in East Sutton, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sutton Valence
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 55 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 79 km · London Stansted (STN), 79 km
- London → Sutton Valence60 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £7–9
- London, Essex → Sutton Valence60 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Sutton Valence103 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £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 Sutton Valence
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 Sutton Valence. 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 Sutton Valence
Sutton Valence is 60 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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