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Womenswold

Womenswold is a village and civil parish centred 7 miles (11 km) south-east of Canterbury, Kent, England, 1 mile to the east of the A2 road.

Womenswold
Womenswold · Barry Marsh from London, England
The place

Womenswold is a village and civil parish centred 7 miles (11 km) south-east of Canterbury, Kent, England, 1 mile to the east of the A2 road. The parish consists of three hamlets: Womenswold, Woolage Village and Woolage Green.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Womenswold

2 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
    Broome Park

    Broome Park is a country house in Barham, within the City of Canterbury, Kent, England. It was built for Basil Dixwell between 1635 and 1638.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed English country house in Barham, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Adisham Water Tower

    Adisham Water Tower is a Grade II listed building located in the parish of Adisham, Kent. The structure was built in 1903 in an Edwardian Italianate Revival style for the Margate Corporation District Waterworks.

    3.4 km · water tower in Adisham, 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.

Go there

Getting to Womenswold

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 96 km · London Stansted (STN), 100 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 118 km
Stations
Aylesham railway station, 2.4 km · Adisham railway station, 3.4 km · Snowdown railway station, 1.9 km · Shepherds Well railway station, 3.9 km · Shepherdswell (EKLR) railway station, 3.8 km
  • London → Womenswold
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £10–13
  • London, Essex → Womenswold
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £10–13
  • Luton, Luton → Womenswold
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Womenswold

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 Womenswold. 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

    184 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    345 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    408 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    641 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    676 km

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

Around it

Next door to Womenswold

  • Barhamvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK2.3 km
  • Ayleshamvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK1.9 km
  • Adishamvillage in Kent, England, UK3.4 km
  • Kingstonvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK2.9 km
  • Noningtonvillage in Kent, England, UK3.4 km
  • Denton with Woottoncivil parish in Dover, Kent, England3.8 km