English Heritage sites near Cobham Parish
MILTON CHANTRY
4 miles from Cobham Parish
Milton Chantry is all that remains of a 14th-century hospital later used in turn as a public house, a Georgian barracks, and Second World War gas decontamination chamber.
TEMPLE MANOR
4 miles from Cobham Parish
Part of a manor house of the Knights Templar, built in about 1240, with a fine first floor hall displaying traces of wall paintings.
TILBURY FORT
4 miles from Cobham Parish
Spend a great family day out at Tilbury Fort in Essex. Explore the magazine houses or the bastion magazine passages of this fort on the Thames estuary that has protected London’s seaward approach.
ROCHESTER CASTLE
4 miles from Cobham Parish
Strategically placed astride the London Road, guarding an important crossing of the River Medway, this imposing fortress has a complex history of destruction and rebuilding.
UPNOR CASTLE
6 miles from Cobham Parish
Set in tranquil grounds adjoining a riverside village, this rare example of an Elizabethan artillery fort was begun in 1559 and redeveloped in 1599-1601, to protect warships at Chatham dockyards.
KIT'S COTY HOUSE AND LITTLE KIT'S COTY HOUSE
7 miles from Cobham Parish
The remains of two megalithic 'dolmen' burial chambers. Impressive Kit's Coty has three uprights and a massive capstone: Little Kit's Coty, alias the Countless Stones, is now a jumble of sarsens.
Churches in Cobham Parish
Cobham: St Mary Magdalene
Cobham
Cobham
Gravesend
01474 814332
http://www.cobham-luddesdowne.org
Cobham Church is a very old church standing on a hill in the centre of the village. Early in the thirteenth century the de Cobhams began to provide money for rebuilding the existing old church. Of this work only the splendid Chancel dating from 1220 survives plus some superb brasses some 600 years old remain.
St Mary's Church Room,
The Street, Sole Street
Cobham
01474 814332
https://www.cobham-luddesdowne.org/
The Vicarage Battle Street Cobham Gravesend Kent
(01474) 814332
Pubs in Cobham Parish
Darnley Arms
40 The Street, Cobham, DA12 3BZ
(01474) 814218
thedarnleyarms.com
Leather Bottle
54-56 The Street, Cobham, DA12 3BZ
(01474) 814327
theleatherbottle.pub
Railway Inn
Sole Street, Cobham, Sole Street, Cobham, DA13 0XY
(01474) 814375
Rochester & Cobham Park Golf Club
Ship
14 The Street, Cobham, DA12 3BN
(01474) 814326
shipinn-cobham.co.uk/