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# Godmersham

Godmersham is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England.

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## Every way there

- London → Godmersham 82 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-godmersham) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Godmersham)
- London, Essex → Godmersham 82 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-essex-to-godmersham) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London%2C+Essex&to=Godmersham)
- Luton, Luton → Godmersham 120 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luton-luton-to-godmersham) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luton%2C+Luton&to=Godmersham)

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 Godmersham, 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 Godmersham has

- Y Scheduled flights London (LGW), 80 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, 10 km.

51.218°, 0.957°

The village straddles the Great Stour river where it cuts through the North Downs and its land is approximately one third woodland, all in the far east and west on the escarpment of the North Downs. It is six miles north-east of Ashford on the A28 road midway between Ashford and Canterbury in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with the North Downs Way and Pilgrims' Way traversing the parish.

How locals move

## Getting around Godmersham 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/Godmersham), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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