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# Challock

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

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## Every way there

- London → Challock 77 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-challock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Challock)
- London, Essex → Challock 77 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-essex-to-challock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London%2C+Essex&to=Challock)
- Luton, Luton → Challock 116 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £14–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-challock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=Challock)

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

[Read the note on Challock](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/challock)

What Challock has

- Y Scheduled flights London (LGW), 75 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Ashford, 8 km.

51.221°, 0.881°

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 in A small airport with its own airline LyddAir which offers charter flights.

From [Wikivoyage: Ashford (England)](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ashford_(England%29), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challock), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Poliphilo (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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