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Willesborough

Willesborough is a residential suburb, on the eastern side of Ashford, in the county of Kent, England.

Willesborough
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The place

Willesborough is a residential suburb, on the eastern side of Ashford, in the county of Kent, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Willesborough

6 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
    Ashford Designer Outlet

    The Ashford Designer Outlet is a shopping centre in Ashford, Kent, England. The McArthurGlen Ashford Designer Outlet was designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership and engineers Buro Happold, and opened in March 2000.

    1.3 km · Designer shopping centre based in Ashford, Kent · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Christ Church, Ashford

    Christ Church is in the town of Ashford, Kent, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ashford, the archdeaconry of Maidstone, and the diocese of Canterbury.

    1.8 km · grade II listed church in Ashford, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary's Parish Church, Ashford

    St Mary's Parish Church, also known as the Church of St Mary the Virgin, in Ashford, Kent, England, dates to the late 13th century. It is a Grade I listed.

    2 km · Grade I listed church in Ashford, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ashford Steam Centre

    Ashford Steam Centre was a short-lived railway museum at Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom. It was located at the former engine shed that was situated east of Ashford railway station.

    1.4 km · closed railway museum in Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ashford Warren and Hoads Wood

    Ashford Warren and Hoads Wood is a 34.5-hectare nature reserve north of Ashford in Kent. It is owned by Ashford Borough Council and managed by Kent Wildlife Trust.

    3.3 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Conningbrook Lakes Country Park

    Conningbrook Lakes Country Park is a 34.3-hectare nature reserve in Kennington, Ashford in Kent. It is managed by Kent Wildlife Trust.

    1.9 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Willesborough

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 75 km · London Stansted (STN), 95 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 101 km
Stations
RAF Kingsnorth, 3.8 km
  • London → Willesborough
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £9–11
  • London, Essex → Willesborough
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £9–11
  • Luton, Luton → Willesborough
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Willesborough

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA small airport with its own airline LyddAir which offers charter flights.

From Wikivoyage: Ashford (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

    162 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    366 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    388 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    635 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    670 km

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

Around it

Next door to Willesborough

  • Ashfordtown in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England2.1 km
  • Kingsnorthvillage and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, UK3.3 km
  • Mershamvillage in Kent, England, UK3.5 km
  • Kenningtonsuburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, UK3.2 km
  • Stanhopecivil parish in Ashford, Kent, UK3 km
  • Sevingtonvillage in Sevington with Finberry, Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom1.5 km