English Heritage sites near Luddesdown Parish

Temple Manor

TEMPLE MANOR

5 miles from Luddesdown 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.

St Leonard's Tower

ST LEONARD'S TOWER

5 miles from Luddesdown Parish

An early and well-preserved example of a small free-standing Norman tower keep, surviving almost to its original height.

Rochester Castle

ROCHESTER CASTLE

5 miles from Luddesdown 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.

Kit's Coty House and Little Kit's Coty House

KIT'S COTY HOUSE AND LITTLE KIT'S COTY HOUSE

6 miles from Luddesdown 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

MILTON CHANTRY

6 miles from Luddesdown 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

TILBURY FORT

7 miles from Luddesdown 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 Luddesdown Parish

Luddesdowne St Peter and St Paul

Luddesdown Luddesdown Gravesend
01474 814332
http://www.cobham-luddesdowne.org

St Peter and St Paul is the small and ancient church of the tiny downland parish of Luddesdowne in north west Kent. The church, with a late Norman house and attendant farm, clustered among old trees at the head of two, long, raking valleys, is still a focal point of a scattered community of some two hundred souls, little larger than it was when the Domesday surveyors of 1086 recorded 'a church here'. Luddesdowne Church is renowned for the wall paintings, which can be seen on the website.

Pubs in Luddesdown Parish

Cock Inn

Henley Street, Luddesdown, DA13 0XB
(01474) 814208
cockluddesdowne.com

Proudly traditional rural free house dating from the early 18th century and under the same ownership since 1984.  Keen walkers can reach it by footpath from Sole Street station. Two distinct bars, a large conservatory, a separate function...
Golden Lion

Luddesdown Road, Luddesdown, DA13 0XE
(01474) 815644
thegoldenlionpub.uk/

Lively village pub with a comfortable bar area and a restaurant extension with good value meals. It hosts several groups, including custom cars, cycling, and an investment group. There are also regular quiz evenings, open mic nights and ch...
White Horse

White Horse Lane, Harvel, DA13 0UF

The White Horse traded from 1906 to 1952, having been erected to replace an earlier White Horse located some 300 yards away at Poundgate, near Luddesdown, which was destroyed by fire in 1902. In its early days the pub was part of the tied...