English Heritage sites near Cuxton Parish
TEMPLE MANOR
2 miles from Cuxton 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.
ROCHESTER CASTLE
2 miles from Cuxton 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
4 miles from Cuxton 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
5 miles from Cuxton 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.
MILTON CHANTRY
5 miles from Cuxton 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
6 miles from Cuxton 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.
Churches in Cuxton Parish
Cuxton: St Michael & All Angels
Pubs in Cuxton Parish
Cuxton Social Club
104 Bush Road, Cuxton, ME2 1EZ
(01634) 718068
cuxtonsocialclub.com/
White Hart
1 Rochester Road, Cuxton, ME2 1AD
(01634) 789969
whitehartcuxton.co.uk/