Village in Kent, England

Swanscombe

Swanscombe is a town in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England, and the civil parish of Swanscombe and Greenhithe.

Every way there

London → Swanscombe
31 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £3.5–4.5
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London, Essex → Swanscombe
31 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £3.5–4.5
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Luton, Luton → Swanscombe
70 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–12
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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 Swanscombe, 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 Swanscombe has

YScheduled flightsLondon (LGW), 47 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesGravesend Town Pier, 6 km, P&O Ferries; 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.

51.449°, 0.299°

It is 4.4 miles west of Gravesend and 4.8 miles east of Dartford. It had a population of 6300.

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