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Sittingbourne
Town in Kent, England

Sittingbourne

Sittingbourne is an industrial town in the Swale district of Kent, southeast England, 17 miles (27 km) from Canterbury and 45 miles (72 km) from London, beside the Roman Watling Street, an ancient trackway used by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons.

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In 2021 it had a population of 54,392.

Get in

Getting to Sittingbourne

It is 17 miles (27 km) from Canterbury and 45 miles (72 km) from London. The nearest major airport is London Gatwick Airport (LGW IATA), which is 49 mi (79 km) away. Sittingbourne is served by regular trains from London Victoria and London St Pancras International, Canterbury, Dover, Ramsgate, Margate, Whitstable, the Medway Towns Faversham and Sheerness.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Sittingbourne Heritage Museum
  2. 02
    Church of All Saints

    An Anglican parish church, which is notable due to its architect, William Burges, and was constructed in 1873–4.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway

    4-mile steam train line that runs on Sundays and Bank Holidays March - December.

  2. 02
    Kent Kings Speedway
  3. 03
    Bayford Meadows Kart Circuit

    Symmonds Drive, Eurolink Industrial Estate, ME10 3RY (one mile from Sittingborne station), info@bayfordmeadows.co.uk.

  4. 04
    Battle Kart

    Battlekart Sittingbourne, Chestnut Street, info@sittingbourne.battlekart.com.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    The Golden Hope

    1 Park Road, ME10 1DR,.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Train Photos (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.