Village in Kent, England

Blean

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

Every way there

London → Blean
84 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £9–12
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London, Essex → Blean
84 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £9–12
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Luton, Luton → Blean
119 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–19
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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.

The field note

What is in and around Blean, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Blean has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 85 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Canterbury, 4 km.

51.307°, 1.043°

The civil parish is large and is mostly woodland, much of which is ancient woodland. The developed village within the parish is scattered along the road between Canterbury and Whitstable, in the middle of the Forest of Blean. Blean is part of the electoral ward of Blean Forest. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 5,589.

How locals move

Getting around Blean the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.