William Harvey Hospital

Plan your route

You might find the following websites useful in planning your route to our hospital (other websites are available)

• Kentconnected.org - Use the Kent Connected website to plan your entire journey by public transport, car, cycle or by foot.

• AA Map finder - enter your postcode, town or area to find online maps of your area

• Google Maps- enter your postcode, town or area and the hospital postcode TN24 0LZ

• AA Route Planner - you can search for a route using street or postcode, town or city and enter the hospital postcode TN24 0LZ.

• Follow @KentHighways for the latest information on traffic and travel news or visit www.kent.gov.uk/roads-and-travel

Car Parks

William Harvey Hospital operates two types of car park – Pay On Foot (barrier controlled) and also Pay & Display.  Drivers enter the site off the mini-roundabout, and should then follow road-side directional signage to the car parks.

Main visitor car park (pay-on-foot) and overflow car park (pay & display)

Car Park 1 offers 265 bays and is located in front of both the main hospital and A&E entrances. Take a ticket at the entry barrier and when ready to leave pay at one of the pay stations located outside the main entrance before returning to your vehicle. 

Please note - at busy times, traffic marshals may redirect you to an adjacent Pay & Display car park which is used when the main car park is full.  This overflow car park is not barrier controlled so please purchase a ticket on arrival and display this in your windscreen, or use the cashless RingGo app (zone 3896).

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Channel Day car park (pay & display)

Take the first left and follow the road all the way through the hospital past Estates towards Stores, in order to reach the Channel Day P&D car park at the rear of the site. Payment can be made by coin, contactless or RingGo.

Designated disabled bays can be found outside of all the main hospital entrance points:

• 52 opposite the hospital entrance – to access these, drive past the main visitor car park and head towards the main entrance. There can be queues at busy times but traffic marshals will be on hand to help.

• 6 outside Channel Day

• 6 outside the staff residence blocks (zone 16)

Patient drop-off bays are located directly outside the hospital entrances. These are intended for drop-off and pick-up only and we would ask you not to wait or park there as space is limited.

Staff parking areas are reserved for staff permit holders only – please be careful not to park in one of these as you may be liable to a parking ticket. Please also be mindful of areas signed for restricted use as standard P&D tickets will not be valid in those areas.

Weekly permits

Weekly permits can be obtained via the pay stations. Simply press the 'others' button on the pay station display screen and the weekly ticket option will appear. Keep the ticket safe as on subsequent visits, you will need to insert it at the entry barrier to gain access, and again at the exit barrier when you leave.

For details of parking charges, please see Parking information and charges

Stagecoach route C provides frequent buses between the hospital and Ashford town centre and rail station. At the town centre connections can be made with buses to and from outlying areas. The hospital is also served by buses from Folkestone, Sandgate, Hythe, Saltwood, Lympne and Sellindge on route 10.

To plan your bus journey to and from the William Harvey Hospital, please use the journey planner on the Stagecoach website here [https://www.stagecoachbus.com/plan-a-journey] or call Traveline on 0871 200 22 33 (calls cost 12p per minute plus your phone company's access charge).

• Kentconnected.org - Use the Kent Connected website to plan your journey.

Trains to Ashford (William Harvey Hospital)

Ashford International is the nearest rail station to the William Harvey Hospital. It is a short walk from the town centre, from where 'bus service 5' runs every 15 minutes.  Bus services 10 and 11 also run directly from the station to the hospital. These services both run about once an hour.

There are regular direct train services to Ashford International from Tonbridge, Paddock Wood, Margate, Ramsgate, Dover and Folkestone, as well as many other stations.

Please visit the South Eastern Railway website for full details and times of rail connections and timetables.

For information on the PlusBus service, which adds unlimited bus travel around town when you purchase your train ticket, please visit the PlusBus website.

• Kentconnected.org - Use the Kent Connected website to plan your journey.

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) provides a free non-emergency ambulance healthcare transport service for patients who have a clinical and medical need for transport, where their current mobility needs would not allow them to use their own, or public transport to get to or from an NHS health care appointment.

To find out if you are eligible, please see the 'Getting to our hospitals by NHS transport' webpage.