Westerham
Westerham is a town and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England.
Westerham is a town and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It is located 3.4 miles east of Oxted and 6 miles west of Sevenoaks, adjacent to the Kent border with both Greater London and Surrey.
It is recorded as early as the 9th century, and was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 in a Norman form, Oistreham. Hām is Old English for a village or homestead, and so Westerham means a westerly homestead. The River Darent flows through the town, and formerly powered three watermills. The total population in 2021 was 4,498.
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Worth seeing in and around Westerham
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.
- 01Chartwell
Chartwell is a country house near Westerham, Kent, in South East England. For over forty years, it was the home of Sir Winston Churchill.
3.1 km · country house south of Westerham, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Titsey Place
Titsey Place is an English country house near Oxted in Surrey, England. It was successively the seat of the Gresham and Leveson-Gower families and is now preserved by a charitable trust for the nation.
3.8 km · country house in Titsey, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03All Saints Church, Oxted
All Saints Church is a Catholic parish church in Oxted, Surrey. Building work on the church started in 1913 and was delayed by World War I. Aspects of the church interior were designed by Geoffrey Webb.
5.3 km · grade II listed church in Oxted, Tandridge, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Peter
The Anglican Church of St Peter in Limpsfield, Surrey, England dates from the 12th century. It is a Grade I listed building.
4.2 km · church in Limpsfield, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Katharine's Church, Knockholt
St Katharine's Church is an Anglican parish church in the village of Knockholt and the Sevenoaks deanery. St Katharine's and St Margaret's came together in 1983 as a United Benefice under one parish priest.
4.9 km · church in Knockholt, Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Church of St Mary
St Mary's Church is an Anglican church in Sundridge, Kent, England, and in the Diocese of Rochester. It is Grade I listed.
4.1 km · church in Sundridge, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Downe Activity Centre
Downe Scout Activity Centre was one of the National Scout Activity Centres under the direct control of The Scout Association in Downe near Orpington, Greater London. It provided camping and indoor accommodations for Scouts and Guides.
5.7 km · Scout camping site in Greater London · Wikipedia - 08Quebec House
Quebec House is the birthplace of General James Wolfe on what is now known as Quebec Square in Westerham, Kent, England. The house is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England since September 1954.
600 m · Grade I listed military museum in Westerham, Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Squerryes Court
Squerryes Court is a late 17th-century manor house that stands just outside the town of Westerham in Kent. The house, which has been held by the same family for over 280 years, is surrounded by extensive gardens and parkland and is a grade I listed building.
1.2 km · country house in Westerham, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Holy Trinity Church, Crockham Hill
Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church based in Crockham Hill, Kent, England. It was constructed in 1842 and is a Grade II listed building.
3.8 km · church building in Westerham, Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Quebec House
Quebec Square, Westerham, TN16 1TD (6 miles west of Sevenoaks), quebechouse@nationaltrust.org.uk.
- 02Chartwell
Family home of Sir Winston Churchill, with magnificent views over the Weald of Kent.
From Wikivoyage: Westerham, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Westerham
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 22 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 43 km · London Stansted (STN), 69 km
- Stations
- Hurst Green railway station, 5.5 km · Oxted railway station, 5.4 km · Brasted railway station, 2.8 km · Westerham railway station, 300 m
- London → Westerham30 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £3.5–4.5
- London, Essex → Westerham30 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £3.5–4.5
- Luton, Luton → Westerham76 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £10–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Westerham
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 Westerham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Westerham
Westerham is 30 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Oxtedtown and civil parish in Surrey, England5.6 km
- Tandridgelocal government district in Surrey, England5.1 km
- Biggin Hilltown in the London Borough of Bromley, England5.3 km
- Brastedvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK2.9 km
- Knockholtvillage and civil parish in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK4.9 km
- Cheveningvillage in Kent, England, UK5.4 km