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Wickhambreaux

Wickhambreaux is a village and civil parish in the Canterbury district, in the county of Kent, England.

Wickhambreaux
Wickhambreaux · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Wickhambreaux is a village and civil parish in the Canterbury district, in the county of Kent, England. The village is just off the A257 Sandwich Road, four miles east of the city of Canterbury. Since Roman times the village has had connections to the Church and the Crown, including being owned by Joan of Kent in the 14th century. The 13th-century parish church of St Andrew stands around a medieval village green along with other historic buildings.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wickhambreaux

7 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
    St Mary's Church, Wingham

    St Mary's Church, Wingham, is an Anglican parish church in Wingham, Kent. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

    2.4 km · church in Wingham, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    1.4 km · Grade I listed church in Littlebourne, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Howletts Wild Animal Park

    Howletts Wild Animal Park in the parish of Bekesbourne, near Canterbury in Kent, was established as a private zoo in 1957 by John Aspinall. In 1962, the House known as Howletts was being restored.

    3.1 km · zoo in Kent, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wingham Wildlife Park

    Wingham Wildlife Park is a medium-sized wildlife park situated near Wingham, Kent, United Kingdom where it covers an area of 26 acres. In 2011, the species count at the park reached 180 species, growing to over 200 in 2013 covering fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and birds.

    3.1 km · zoo in Kent, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Preston Marshes

    Preston Marshes is a 43.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Canterbury in Kent. This site in the valley of the River Little Stour is dominated by common reed, with areas of willow scrub and pasture.

    1.9 km · site in east of Canterbury in Kent · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    2.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Canon Cottage The Old Canonry

    Wingham is a village and civil parish in the Dover District of Kent, England. It contains 98 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed building in Wingham, Kent, England, 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 Wickhambreaux

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 94 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 97 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 116 km
Stations
Wingham (Canterbury Road) railway station, 2.1 km · Wingham Colliery railway station, 3.4 km · Wingham Town railway station, 2.8 km
  • London → Wickhambreaux
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £10–13
  • London, Essex → Wickhambreaux
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £10–13
  • Luton, Luton → Wickhambreaux
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wickhambreaux

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 Wickhambreaux. 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

    186 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    340 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    408 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    634 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    669 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wickhambreaux

  • Winghamvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK2.7 km
  • Littlebournevillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK1.8 km
  • Hersdenvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK3.6 km
  • Prestonvillage near Wingham, Dover, Kent, England3.7 km
  • Ickham and Wellcivil parish in Kent, UK1.7 km
  • Ickhamvillage in Kent, England, UK700 m