English Heritage sites near Stambridge Parish
HADLEIGH CASTLE
6 miles from Stambridge 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.
UPNOR CASTLE
15 miles from Stambridge 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.
ROCHESTER CASTLE
17 miles from Stambridge 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
17 miles from Stambridge 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
18 miles from Stambridge 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.
MILTON CHANTRY
18 miles from Stambridge 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.
Churches in Stambridge Parish
Stambridge: St Mary & All Saints
Pubs in Stambridge Parish
Cherry Tree
Stambridge Rd, Stambridge, SS4 2AF
(01702) 545960
pieandpintinns.co.uk/
Royal Oak
Stambrdge Road, Stambridge, SS4 2AX
(01702) 258259
theroyaloakstambridge.com/