[1] The village is 7 miles (11 km) northwest from the channel port of Dover, and 30 miles (48 km) east-southeast from the county town of Maidstone.

The major A2 London to Dover road is 1 mile (1.6 km) to the northeast.

Wootton was the birthplace of the mathematician and surveyor Leonard Digges, who some claim invented a functioning telescope some time between 1540 and 1559.

The worldwide known Lydden Hill Race Circuit, the so-called "Home of Rallycross", is located near Wootton village.

[2] Media related to Wootton, Kent at Wikimedia Commons