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Swattenden

Swattenden is a small settlement in the parish of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst in England.

The place

Swattenden is a small settlement in the parish of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst in England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Swattenden

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
    Cranbrook Strict Baptist Chapel

    The Cranbrook Strict Baptist Chapel, is a Strict Baptist place of worship in the town of Cranbrook in the English county of Kent. The chapel was built in 1787.

    1.5 km · church in Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Dunstan, Cranbrook

    St Dunstan's Church, also known as the Cathedral of the Weald, in Cranbrook, Kent, England, dates to the late 13th century. It is now Grade I listed.

    1.7 km · church in Cranbrook, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St George, Benenden

    St George's Church, Benenden is a Church of England church in Benenden, Kent. The building is Grade II* listed with Historic England.

    4 km · church in Benenden, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Crane Valley

    Crane Valley is a 0.8-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Cranbrook in Kent. It is owned and managed by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council.

    1.2 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 Swattenden

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 51 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 81 km · London Stansted (STN), 92 km
Stations
Cranbrook railway station, 2 km · Hawkhurst railway station, 2.7 km
  • London → Swattenden
    66 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £8–10
  • London, Essex → Swattenden
    66 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £8–10
  • Luton, Luton → Swattenden
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Swattenden

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 Swattenden. 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

    136 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    363 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    389 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    625 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    661 km

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