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 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.
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.
- 01Church 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 - 02Church 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 - 03Wildwood 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 - 04East 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 - 05Stodmarsh 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 - 06Fordwich 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 - 07Chequer'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 - 08St 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
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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 → Westbere91 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Westbere91 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Westbere125 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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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