Skip to content
Mixroutes
Village in Kent, England · United Kingdom

Teston

Teston or is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England.

Teston
Teston · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Teston or is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. It is located on the A26 road out of Maidstone, four miles (6.4 km) from Maidstone town centre. There is a narrow stone bridge over the River Medway here.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Teston

10 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
    Mereworth Castle

    Mereworth Castle is a grade I listed Palladian country house in Mereworth, Kent, England.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed English country house in Mereworth, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    All Saints Church, West Farleigh

    All Saints is a parish church in West Farleigh, Kent. It was begun in the 11th century and is a Grade I listed building.

    1.2 km · Grade I listed church in West Farleigh, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary's Church, Nettlestead

    St Mary the Virgin is a parish church in Nettlestead, Kent, begun in the 13th century.

    2.3 km · church in Nettlestead, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Barham Court

    Barham Court is an English country house in the village of Teston, Kent.

    400 m · country house in Teston, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Peter and St Paul, Teston

    St Peter's and St Paul's is a parish church in Teston, Kent. It is a Grade II* listed building and was rebuilt in 1736 for Sir Philip Boteler of Barham Court.

    200 m · church in Teston, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Oaken Wood

    Oaken Wood is a 18.7-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Maidstone in Kent. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    1.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    West Farleigh Hall

    Smiths Hall, known as West Farleigh Hall from the early 20th century until the 1990s, is an 18th-century country house in West Farleigh, Kent.

    1.3 km · Grade I listed country house in West Farleigh, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Nettlestead Place

    Nettlestead Place is a country house in Nettlestead, Kent, England. The house and its gatehouse are each separately Grade I listed buildings.

    2.3 km · Grade I listed country house in Nettlestead, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    East Farleigh Bridge

    East Farleigh Bridge is a road bridge across the River Medway in East Farleigh, Kent, England. The bridge is medieval and was probably constructed in the 14th century.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed bridge in Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Quarry Wood, Kent

    Quarry Wood is a 26-hectare nature reserve east of West Farleigh, which is south-west of Maidstone in Kent. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust.

    2.5 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 Teston

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 45 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 67 km · London Stansted (STN), 71 km
Stations
Yalding railway station, 3.8 km · East Malling railway station, 3.4 km · Wateringbury railway station, 1.4 km · East Farleigh railway station, 3.1 km · Teston Crossing Halt railway station, 500 m
  • London → Teston
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Teston
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £5–7
  • Luton, Luton → Teston
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Teston

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 Teston. 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

    137 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    356 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    382 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    606 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    641 km

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

Around it

Next door to Teston

Teston is 48 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kings Hillvillage and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England3.4 km
  • Yaldingvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK3.5 km
  • Nettlesteadvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom2.3 km
  • Wateringburyvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK1.2 km
  • East Farleighvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Barmingcivil parish in Kent, United Kingdom2.3 km