Cooling Castle, Gillingham

Name: Cooling Castle
Address: Gillingham, United Kingdom

#9 among attractions in Gillingham

Entertainment, Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture

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Cooling Castle is a 14th-century quadrangular castle in the village of Cooling, Kent on the Hoo Peninsula about 6 miles north of Rochester. It was built in the 1380s by the Cobham family, the local lords of the manor, to guard the area against French raids into the Thames Estuary. The castle has an unusual layout, comprising two walled wards of unequal size next to each other, surrounded by moats and ditches. It was the earliest English castle designed for the use of gunpowder weapons by its defenders. ()

Alternative names: Built: 1380 (645 years ago)Coordinates: 51°27'19"N, 0°31'21"E

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Hoo PeninsulaGillingham United Kingdom

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Cooling Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Upnor Castle, Dockside Outlet Centre, Coalhouse Fort, Cliffe Fort.

3.3 miS
Museum, Military museum, Forts and castles
Upnor Castle, Gillingham
86 min walk • Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan artillery fort located on the west bank of the River Medway in Kent. It is in the village of Upnor, opposite and a short distance downriver from the Chatham Dockyard, at one time a key naval facility.
3.8 miS
51°24'4"N • 0°32'5"E
Dockside Outlet Centre, Gillingham
97 min walk • Shopping, Shopping centre, Outlet mall
3.9 miW
Forts and castles, Historical place
Coalhouse Fort
100 min walk • Coalhouse Fort is an artillery fort in the eastern English county of Essex. It was built in the 1860s to guard the lower Thames from seaborne attack.
2.9 miW
Forts and castles
Cliffe Fort
75 min walk • Cliffe Fort is a disused artillery fort built in the 1860s to guard the entrance to the Thames from seaborne attack. Constructed during a period of tension with France, it stands on the south bank of the river at the entrance to Cliffe Creek in the Cliffe marshes on the Hoo Peninsula in North Kent.
3.7 miW
Forts and castles
Shornemead Fort
95 min walk • Shornemead Fort is a now-disused artillery fort that was built in the 1860s to guard the entrance to the Thames from seaborne attack.
4 miS
Museum
Kent Police Museum, Gillingham
103 min walk • The Kent Police Museum is located at Faversham Police Station in Kent, England. The museum was previously located within Chatham Dockyard. In September 2015 it relocated to temporary accommodation at the Kent Police Headquarters in Maidstone, and moved to Faversham on 8 Dec 2016.
~910 ftE
Church
St James' Church
5 min walk • St James' Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Cooling, Kent, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.1 miS
Forest
Tower Hill to Cockham Wood, Gillingham
81 min walk • Tower Hill to Cockham Wood is a 47.8-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the northern outskirts of Rochester in Kent. It contains two Geological Conservation Review sites.
2.9 miSE
Area
Hoo St Werburgh, Gillingham
73 min walk • Hoo St Werburgh, commonly known as Hoo, is a large village and civil parish in the Medway district of Kent, England. It is one of several villages on the Hoo Peninsula to bear the name Hoo, a Saxon word believed to mean "spur of land" or to refer to the "distinct heel-shape of the ridge of hills" through the settlement.
3.9 miS
Area
Frindsbury, Gillingham
99 min walk • Frindsbury, sometimes called Frinsbury, is part of the Medway Towns conurbation in Kent, southern England. It lies on the opposite side of the River Medway to Rochester, and at various times in its history has been considered fully or partially part of the City of Rochester.
2.5 miSW
Church
St. Mary's Church
65 min walk • St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Higham, Kent, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.