English Heritage sites near St. Mary Hoo Parish
UPNOR CASTLE
5 miles from St. Mary Hoo 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.
HADLEIGH CASTLE
5 miles from St. Mary Hoo Parish
The romantic ruins of a royal castle overlooking the Essex marshes. Hadleigh was begun in about 1215 by Hubert de Burgh, but extensively refortified by Edward III during the Hundred Years War.
ROCHESTER CASTLE
7 miles from St. Mary Hoo 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.
TEMPLE MANOR
7 miles from St. Mary Hoo 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.
MILTON CHANTRY
9 miles from St. Mary Hoo 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.
TILBURY FORT
9 miles from St. Mary Hoo 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.
No churches found in St. Mary Hoo Parish
Pubs in St. Mary Hoo Parish
Fenn Bell Inn
Allhallows St. Mary's Hoo, Hoo, ME3 8RF
(01634) 270422
fennbellinn.co.uk/