English Heritage sites near Hawkwell Parish
HADLEIGH CASTLE
4 miles from Hawkwell 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
14 miles from Hawkwell 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
16 miles from Hawkwell 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.
TILBURY FORT
16 miles from Hawkwell 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.
TEMPLE MANOR
16 miles from Hawkwell 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
16 miles from Hawkwell 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 Hawkwell Parish
Hawkwell: Emmanuel
Main Road
Hawkwell
Hockley
(01702) 543514
https://hawkwellparishchurch.org
We aim to be worshipping church which is warm and welcoming,open and inclusive,willing to meet people at their point of need, co-operating with God to make a difference in the community and wider afield.
Hawkwell: St Mary the Virgin
Rectory Road
Hawkwell
Hockley
(01702) 543514
https://hawkwellparishchurch.org
We aim to be a worshipping church which is warm and welcoming, open and inclusive, willing to meet people at their point of need, co-operating with God to make a difference in the community and wider afield
Pubs in Hawkwell Parish
Victory Inn
485 Ashingon Road, Ashingdon, SS4 3EU
(01702) 548440
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