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Upchurch

Upchurch is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England.

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The place

Upchurch is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England. It is situated about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the A2 road, between Rainham and Sittingbourne.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Upchurch

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.

  1. 01
    Romano-Celtic temple at Watling, Newington

    Watling Temple is the name given to the remains of a temple within a Roman town next to the modern A2 road in Newington, near Sittingbourne in Kent, England.

    3.2 km · Romano-Celtic temple in a roadside settlement near Newington · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Berengrave Chalk Pit

    Berengrave Chalk Pit is a 12.77-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Rainham in Kent. It is owned and managed by Medway Council.

    2.6 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Riverside Country Park

    Riverside Country Park is a large coastal public park, situated alongside the River Medway estuary between Gillingham and Rainham. The park covers about 100 hectares.

    3.8 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.

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Getting to Upchurch

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 63 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 63 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 78 km
Stations
Rainham railway station, 3 km · Newington railway station, 2.9 km
  • London → Upchurch
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £6–8
  • London, Essex → Upchurch
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Upchurch
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Upchurch

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 Upchurch. 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

    157 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    362 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    371 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    604 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    639 km

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

Around it

Next door to Upchurch

Upchurch is 55 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Rainhamtown in Medway, Kent, England3.5 km
  • Lower Halstowvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK1.3 km
  • Hartlipvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK3.3 km
  • Newingtonvillage and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England3 km
  • Funtonvillage in Kent, England, UK3.1 km