Village in Kent, England

Rough Common

Rough Common is a village in Canterbury in the parish of Harbledown, Kent, England.

Every way there

London → Rough Common
85 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £9–12
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London, Essex → Rough Common
85 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £9–12
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Luton, Luton → Rough Common
120 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £14–19
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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 Rough Common, 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 Rough Common has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 87 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
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. Nearest place with more: Ashford, 20 km.

51.293°, 1.048°

It forms part of the civil parish of Harbledown and Rough Common.

How locals move

Getting around Rough Common the local way

Get aroundIt also gives advice on how best to see the city by bike, having put together several good guides to local rides, including on road, off road, and dedicated path routes.

From Wikivoyage: Canterbury (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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