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Yalding

Yalding is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Maidstone in Kent, England.

Yalding
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The place

Yalding is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Maidstone in Kent, England. The village is situated 6 miles (9.7 km) south west of Maidstone at a point where the Rivers Teise and Beult join the River Medway. At the 2001 census, the parish, which includes the villages of Benover to the southeast, Laddingford to the southwest and Queen Street, had a population of 2,236. increasing to 2,418 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Yalding

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.

  1. 01
    St Mary's Church, Hunton

    St Mary's Church is a parish church in Hunton, Kent, England. It was begun in the late 11th or the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building.

    2.7 km · Grade I listed church in Hunton, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church, Nettlestead

    St Mary the Virgin is a parish church in Nettlestead, Kent, begun in the 13th century.

    2.4 km · church in Nettlestead, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The Hop Farm Country Park

    The Hop Farm is a 400-acre Country Park in Beltring, near East Peckham in the English county of Kent. The farm is over 450 years old and has the largest collection of oast houses in the world.

    3.4 km · country park in Kent, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    All Saints Church, West Farleigh

    All Saints is a parish church in West Farleigh, Kent. It was begun in the 11th century and is a Grade I listed building.

    4 km · Grade I listed church in West Farleigh, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Nettlestead Place

    Nettlestead Place is a country house in Nettlestead, Kent, England. The house and its gatehouse are each separately Grade I listed buildings.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed country house in Nettlestead, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Quarry Wood, Kent

    Quarry Wood is a 26-hectare nature reserve east of West Farleigh, which is south-west of Maidstone in Kent. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust.

    3 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Wateringbury SSSI

    Wateringbury SSSI is a 0.2-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wateringbury west of Maidstone in Kent. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    3.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Teston Bridge

    Teston Bridge is a road bridge across the River Medway, between Teston and West Farleigh in Kent, England.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed bridge in Teston, Kent, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    West Farleigh Hall

    Smiths Hall, known as West Farleigh Hall from the early 20th century until the 1990s, is an 18th-century country house in West Farleigh, Kent.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed country house in West Farleigh, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Barham Court

    Barham Court is an English country house in the village of Teston, Kent.

    3.8 km · country house in Teston, 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 Yalding

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 44 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 68 km · London Stansted (STN), 75 km
Stations
Wateringbury railway station, 2.8 km · Yalding railway station, 1.2 km · Beltring railway station, 2.7 km · Teston Crossing Halt railway station, 3.6 km
  • London → Yalding
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Yalding
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £5–7
  • Luton, Luton → Yalding
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Yalding

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    135 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    355 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    385 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    608 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    644 km

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

Around it

Next door to Yalding

Yalding is 50 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • East Peckhamvillage and civil parish in Kent, England3.8 km
  • Nettlesteadvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom2.6 km
  • Wateringburyvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK3.5 km
  • Huntonvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK2.7 km
  • East Farleighvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Testonvillage and civil parish in Kent, United Kingdom3.5 km