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Challock

Challock

Challock is a mostly wooded, large village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford, Kent, England.

The village name derives from the old English 'Cealfloca' – calf enclosure.

A clear nucleus of the village is centred 8 miles (13 km) south of the port of Faversham and 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Ashford. It dates from around AD823.

How locals move

Getting around Challock the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

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