Village in Kent, England

Hawkhurst

Hawkhurst is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.

Every way there

London → Hawkhurst
68 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £8–11
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London, Essex → Hawkhurst
68 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £8–11
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Luton, Luton → Hawkhurst
113 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £14–18
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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 Hawkhurst, 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 Hawkhurst has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LGW), 50 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
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.

51.047°, 0.517°

The village is located close to the border with East Sussex, around 12 miles (19 km) south-east of Royal Tunbridge Wells and within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

How locals move

Getting around Hawkhurst the local way

Get inThey continue to Ashford, then either to Canterbury West, Minster and Ramsgate, or to Folkestone and Dover (for Channel ferries).

From Wikivoyage: Tenterden, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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