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Yelsted

Yelsted is a hamlet in the Borough of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, England.

The place

Yelsted is a hamlet in the Borough of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Yelsted

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
    St Mary Magdalene Church, Stockbury

    St Mary Magdalene is a parish church in Stockbury, Kent built in the late 12th century with additions in the 13th and 15th centuries and restoration in the 19th century. It is a Grade I listed building.

    2.3 km · church in Stockbury, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Foxburrow Wood

    Foxburrow Wood is a 6.1-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Rainham in Kent. It is owned and managed by Medway Council.

    2.4 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    South Wood

    South Wood is a 6.6-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Hempstead, south of Gillingham in Kent. It is owned and managed by Medway Council.

    3.9 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stockbury Hill Wood

    Stockbury Hill Wood is a 5-hectare nature reserve near Stockbury, north-east of Maidstone in Kent. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust.

    2 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Purple Hill

    Purple Hill is a 14.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Gillingham in Kent. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2.

    1.3 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Queendown Warren

    Queendown Warren is a 22.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Rainham in Kent. It is a Local Nature Reserve, a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2, and a Special Area of Conservation.

    500 m · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hartlip, Swale, 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.

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Getting to Yelsted

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 60 km · London Stansted (STN), 67 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 76 km
Stations
Rainham railway station, 3.9 km
  • London → Yelsted
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £6–8
  • London, Essex → Yelsted
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £6–8
  • Luton, Luton → Yelsted
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Yelsted

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 Yelsted. 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

    152 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    367 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    368 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    606 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    641 km

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

Around it

Next door to Yelsted

Yelsted is 55 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Rainhamtown in Medway, Kent, England3.1 km
  • Hartlipvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK2.5 km
  • Bredhurstvillage in Kent, England, UK2.9 km
  • Stockburyvillage in Kent, England, UK2.8 km
  • Lidsinghamlet in Kent, England, UK3.8 km
  • Danawayvillage in Kent, United Kingdom3.7 km