Town in Kent, England

Sheerness

Sheerness is a port town and civil parish beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England.

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Every way there

London → Sheerness
62 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £8–10
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London, Essex → Sheerness
62 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £8–10
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Luton, Luton → Sheerness
95 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £13–18
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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 Sheerness, 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 Sheerness has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 61 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesBurnham Ferry, 20 km; sailings estimated
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.

51.441°, 0.760°

With a population of 13,249, it is the second largest town on the island after the nearby town of Minster which has a population of 16,738.

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