Getting to Tenterden

BY CAR

Tenterden is situated on the A28 between Hastings and Ashford and is less than an hour by car from the M25.

DISTANCES BY CAR

Eurostar: Ashford International Station: 12 miles, 25 minutes
Eurotunnel: Cheriton, Folkestone: 25 miles, 40 minutes
Dover ferry: 35 miles, 50 minutes
Manston airport, Kent: 47 miles, 1hr 15 minutes
Gatwick Airport: 55 miles, 1hr 15 minutes
Headcorn (nearest Railway station): 9 miles, 15 minutes
Ashford International Railway Station: 25 minutes - High Speed Train 
Lydd Airport: 30 mins, 16 miles

BY BUS

There are regular bus links from Ashford, Hastings, Headcorn, Maidstone, Rolvenden, Rye and Tunbridge Wells to Tenterden. 

The following are the main bus routes to and from Tenterden (not including school services)

Service 2 STAGECOACH
Ashford to Tenterden section
Rolvenden - Tenterden - St Michaels - High Halden - Bethersden - Great Chart - Ashford Designer Outlet - Ashford International Railway Station - Ashford Town Centre 
Mon-Sat only

Service 29 STAGECOACH
Hastings to Tenterden
Hastings - Brede - Broad Oak - Northiam - Newenden - Rolvenden - Tenterden
Mon-Sat only

Service 2A STAGECOACH
Ashford Town Centre - Ashford International Railway Station - Ashford Designer Outlet - Tesco Park Farm - Shadoxhurst - Woodchurch - Tenterden
Mon-Sun

Service 12 ARRIVA
Tenterden - St Michaels - Biddenden - Headcorn - Sutton Valence - Maidstone
Mon-Sun

Service 292  
Hawkhurst - Sandhurst - Rolvenden - Tenterden
Fri only 

Service 293
Tenterden - Smallhythe - Wittersham - Stone in Oxney - Appledore - Reading Street - Leigh Green - Tenterden
Mon and Fri only

Service 293
Tunbridge Wells - Pembury - Lamberhurst - Flimwell - Hawkhurst - Iden Green - Benenden - Rolvenden Layne - Rolvenden - Tenterden - Leigh Green - Reading Street - Appledore - Stone in Oxney - Rye
Thurs only

Service 294
Tenterden - Rolvenden - Rolvenden Layne - Tenterden
Mon and Fri only

Service 297
Tenterden (& Shrubcote) - Rolvenden - Benenden - Cranbrook - Goudhurst - Horsmonden - Pembury (& hospital) - Tunbridge Wells Railway Station
Mon-Sat only

Service 299
Tonbridge - Pembury - Lamberhurst - Hawkhurst - Benenden - Castletons Oak - Tenterden
Fri only

Service 312
Rye - Playden - Iden - Wittersham - Small Hythe - Tenterden
Operated by Stagecoach 
Mon-Sat

BY TRAIN

The nearest mainline railway stations to Tenterden are Headcorn (9 miles) to London Charing Cross (1hr 3minutes), and Ashford International (12 miles) the High Speed line to London St Pancras (38 minutes)

Headcorn: Services for Headcorn depart from London Charing Cross (you may also board trains at London Bridge, and London Waterloo East, a short platform walk from London Waterloo). On your arrival at Headcorn station, bus number 12  will bring you into the centre of Tenterden. There are normally taxis available at Headcorn station.

Ashford: Services for Ashford depart from London St Pancras (HS1, the high speed rail link), 38 minutes journey time. There are also regular services from London Charing Cross and from London Victoria via Maidstone East however these are slower lines. There are taxis available at Ashford station.

Appledore: There is a railway station at Appledore (Kent), 7.5 miles from Tenterden (the closest station to Tenterden), however Appledore is not on the main line and services terminate at Ashford to the north and Hastings to the south and along the coast to Brighton. We do not recommend visitors using Appledore (Kent) train station as there are no facilities (i.e. no ticket office, no taxis, no buses) at Appledore station and the station is 2 miles on country roads from the village of Appledore. Some locals however are starting to use Appledore station to link into the high speed rail link at Ashford so it is possible that in the future this station might develop. However at the moment if you are a visitor and you arrive at Appledore station you will be right in the depths of the Kent countryside with no way of getting anywhere, unless of course someone is collecting you in a car or you have pre-booked a taxi.

For train times from/to Headcorn Station, see the National Rail Network website. For more detailed information about Headcorn Railway Station such as car parking, disabled access, ticket office opening hours, station facilities, live service information and engineering works see the South Eastern Railways website page for Headcorn Station. For bus times from Headcorn station, use the Traveline Southeast website

BY TAXI

If you would like to book a taxi in Tenterden it is best to pre-book. Please see www.mytenterden.co.uk/Directory/taxis-and-private-hire-browse-229.aspx for taxis and private car hire in Tenterden

BY BICYCLE

The National Cycle Network Route 18 goes through Tenterden. This 42 mile (67km) route (The Wealden Cycle Trail) runs on small country lanes through the High Weald.

CAR PARKING

There are a number of pay and display car parks throughout the town, as well as free short stay on-street parking (one hour) in the High Street. Car parking is free all day in Bridewell Lane car park on Sundays and Public Holidays. Pay and display or pay by mobile phone. Car parks https://www.mytenterden.co.uk/Directory/car-parks-browse-279.aspx

• Station Road car park (East & West sides of Station Rd, West is a car park all year, East is a combined car park & coach park in the winter and a dedicated coach park in the Spring, Summer & Autumn)
• Bridewell Lane car park (long stay car park, free all day on Sundays and Bank Holidays)
• Recreation Ground Road car park (also known as Waitrose car park)
• A smaller part of Recreation Ground Road car park opposite Ivy Court Surgery (free for one hour for patients using the surgery - you must obtain a free ticket from the machine)
• Tenterden Leisure Centre car park
• Tesco car park (for Tesco shoppers, 2 hours free)
• Tenterden Town Railway car park (for Kent & East Sussex Railway passengers)

COACH PARKS