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Westbere

Westbere is a small village and civil parish in Kent, England, centred 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of Canterbury city centre along the A28 road to the Isle of Thanet.

Westbere
Westbere · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Westbere is a small village and civil parish in Kent, England, centred 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of Canterbury city centre along the A28 road to the Isle of Thanet.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Westbere

8 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
    Church of St Vincent

    St Vincent of Saragossa's Church is the Church of England parish church of Littlebourne, Kent, England. The parish is part of the Benefice of Littlebourne including Ickham, Wickhambreaux and Stodmarsh.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Littlebourne, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary the Virgin, Fordwich

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a redundant Anglican church in the small town of Fordwich, Kent, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    1.6 km · Grade I listed church in Fordwich, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wildwood Discovery Park

    Wildwood Trust is a woodland discovery park in Herne. It features over fifty species of native British animals and located along the main road A291 between Herne Bay and Canterbury.

    3.2 km · zoo in Kent · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    East Blean Woods

    East Blean Woods is a 151.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Herne Bay in Kent. It is also a National Nature Reserve a Special Area of Conservation and a Nature Conservation Review site.

    3.4 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Stodmarsh SSSI

    Stodmarsh SSSI is a 623.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Stodmarsh, north-east of Canterbury in Kent. Parts of it are a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, a National Nature Reserve, a Ramsar internationally important wetland site, a Special Area of Conservation and a Special Protection Area under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.

    2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Fordwich Town Hall

    Fordwich Town Hall is a municipal structure in King Street, Fordwich, Kent, England. The structure, which serves as the meeting place of Fordwich Town Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

    1.6 km · municipal building in Fordwich, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Chequer's Wood and Old Park

    Chequer's Wood and Old Park is a 106.9-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the eastern outskirts of Canterbury in Kent. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    3 km · park in Kent, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Nicholas' Church, Sturry

    St Nicholas' Church, Sturry, is a joint Anglican and Methodist church standing on a bank beside the River Stour, in the village of Sturry, near Canterbury, in East Kent. The Local Ecumenical Partnership enables the congregation to be of mixed denomination - either Methodist or Anglican.

    1.8 km · Grade I listed church in Sturry, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK · 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 Westbere

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 90 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 94 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 113 km
Stations
Sturry railway station, 1.5 km
  • London → Westbere
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Westbere
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £9–12
  • Luton, Luton → Westbere
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Westbere

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 Westbere. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundIt also gives advice on how best to see the city by bike, having put together several good guides to local rides, including on road, off road, and dedicated path routes.

From Wikivoyage: Canterbury (England), 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

    185 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    341 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    405 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    631 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    666 km

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

Around it

Next door to Westbere

  • Fordwichtown and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom1.8 km
  • Sturryvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK1.5 km
  • Hoathvillage and civil parish in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Hersdenvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK1.7 km
  • Wickhambreauxvillage in Kent, England, UK3.7 km
  • Broad Oakvillage in Kent, England2.3 km