Buckland Hospital

Plan your route

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

• 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 CT17 0HD

• AA Route Planner - you can search for a route using street or postcode, town or city and enter the hospital postcode CT17 OHD.

• Follow @KentHighways for the latest information on traffic and travel news or visit the Kent Government website

Car parks

Buckland Hospital offers pay and display parking. The patient and visitor car parks are located to the right hand side of the new hospital. Payment can be made by coin, contactless or RingGo.

Please note - the first turning directly after the new hospital building is for goods deliveries only.

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Disabled parking bays and Renal bays can be found within the visitor car parks.  

A drop-off layby is located directly in front of the hospital entrance – this is strictly for drop-off and pick-up only and we would ask you not to wait or park there as space is limited.

On-street parking is available in the residential area around the hospital, this is restricted to one hour (at the time of writing) and is regularly patrolled by council enforcement officers. Always check signage in the event changes have been made to the parking restrictions since this page was published.

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

Weekly permits and parking charges

Please call the Trust’s parking team on 01303 852732 for advice on obtaining a weekly ticket.

For details of parking charges, please see our parking information page.

Stagecoach bus routes 90, 91, 92 and 92A provide buses between the hospital and Dover town centre every 20 minutes throughout the daytime on Mondays to Saturdays. These routes also provide a direct service to the hospital from areas such as Folkestone, Deal, Whitfield, Elvington, Eythorne and River. At the town centre connections can be made with other buses to and from outlying areas.

To plan your bus journey to and from Buckland Hospital, please use the Stagecoach journey planner or call Traveline on 0871 200 2233 (calls cost 12p per minute plus your phone company's access charge).

Trains to Dover (Buckland Hospital)

Dover Priory is the nearest rail station to Buckland Hospital. No buses run directly from the train station to Buckland hospital. The town centre is a short walk from the train station where you can catch a bus to the hospital.

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.

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust 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 Getting to our hospitals by NHS transport.