Chiddingstone Causeway

Chiddingstone Causeway is a village 4 miles (6 km) west of Tonbridge in Kent, England. It is within the Sevenoaks local government district. It is in the civil parish of Chiddingstone.

Chiddingstone Causeway
Cottages in Chiddingstone Causeway
Chiddingstone Causeway is located in Kent
Chiddingstone Causeway
Chiddingstone Causeway
Location within Kent
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTonbridge
Postcode districtTN11
PoliceKent
FireKent
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased
Unveiled30 July 1922
Locationnear 
Chiddingstone Causeway
Designed byProfessor Abercrombie
Burials by war
First World War
TO THOSE/ WHO DIED FOR US
Statistics source: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/16099

The village is served by Penshurst Station on the Redhill to Tonbridge Line with trains running hourly between London Victoria and Tonbridge via East Croydon. Connections for Gatwick Airport can be made from this service by changing at Redhill. Penshurst Airfield, which was in operation from 1916 to 1936, and again from 1940 to 1946 as RAF Penshurst, was within ΒΌ mile (400 m) of the station.

The village is also served by the 231 and 233 bus routes linking Lingfield, Edenbridge, and Tunbridge Wells via Bidborough The current service contract is run by Metrobus and there is no Sunday or Bank Holiday service.[1]

In the centre of the village is 'The Little Brown Jug'[2] public house.

St. Luke's church is a Church of England church on the Tonbridge Road, just over a hundred metres east of the pub.

There is a war memorial outside St. Luke's church.[3]

Nearest Settlements

The hamlet of Charcott is half a kilometre to the north. The pub there is the Greyhound.

References

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