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# Painters Forstal

Painters Forstal is a village in the Swale district of the English county of Kent.

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## Every way there

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The field note

What is in and around Painters Forstal, 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 Painters Forstal has

- Y Scheduled flights London (LGW), 74 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: Sittingbourne, 10 km.

51.295°, 0.856°

It is 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west of the town of Faversham and is part of the civil parish of Ospringe. It lies just south of the M2 motorway, and has developed almost completely since the 1950s.

How locals move

## Getting around Painters Forstal the local way

- Get around It is signed throughout although its quality is variable, with a mix of cycle tracks, quiet roads and a few off-road sections.

From [Wikivoyage: Kent](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Kent), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

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


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