Chilham Castle

#955 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Chilham Castle is a Jacobean manor house and keep in the village of Chilham, between Ashford and Canterbury in the county of Kent, England. The keep is of Norman origin and dates to 1174; manor house was completed in 1616 for Sir Dudley Digges. ()

Alternative names: Built: 1612 (412 years ago)Coordinates: 51°14'35"N, 0°57'34"E

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

Nearby attractions include: Stour Valley Walk, Mount Ephraim Gardens, No Man's Orchard, Church of St Mary.

2.3 miS
Hiking, Hiking trail
Stour Valley Walk
58 min walk • The Stour Valley Walk is a recreational walking route that follows the River Stour, through the Low Weald and Kent Downs, from its source at Lenham to its estuary at Pegwell Bay.
4.1 miN
Park, Garden
Mount Ephraim Gardens
104 min walk • Mount Ephraim Gardens is an Edwardian terraced gardens located at Hernhill, near Faversham, in the English county of Kent.
3.4 miNE
Park
No Man's Orchard, Chartham
88 min walk • No Man's Orchard is a 4.1-hectare Local Nature Reserve west of Canterbury in Kent. It is owned by Chartham and Harbledown Parish Councils and managed by the Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership.
2.7 miE
Church
Church of St Mary, Chartham
69 min walk • St Mary's Church is in the village of Chartham, Kent, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Canterbury. Constructed between 1285 and circa 1305, with a later tower of the fourteenth century. In 1875, the church was restored by George Edmund Street.
2.8 miNE
Park
South Blean, Chartham
72 min walk • South Blean is a 329-hectare nature reserve near Chartham Hatch, west of Canterbury in Kent. It is owned and managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust. This site has native woodland, conifer plantations, heath, and bog.
5.1 miNE
Park
Whitehall Meadows, Canterbury
130 min walk • Whitehall Meadows is a 11.6-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Canterbury in Kent. It is owned and managed by Canterbury City Council. This wet meadow has typical damp loving wildlife including snails, butterflies, damselflies, dragonflies and reptiles. This site is divided into two halves, with the River Great Stour running between them.
4.9 miSW
Church
Saint Christopher's Church, Kent Downs
124 min walk • Saint Christopher's Church is a mediaeval Grade II listed church in Boughton Lees near Ashford, Kent, part of the Church of England. The building was originally a mediaeval hall house. It was later a barn and the village school. In the 1950s, it was adopted as a chapel of ease.
3.9 miSW
Church
All Saints' Church
100 min walk • All Saints' Church is a 13th-century pilgrims' Grade I listed church in Boughton Aluph near Ashford, Kent. It is part of the Church of England.
3.2 miSW
Archaeological site
Jacket's Field Long Barrow, Kent Downs
81 min walk • Jacket's Field Long Barrow is an unchambered long barrow located near to the village of Boughton Aluph in the south-eastern English county of Kent. It was probably constructed in the fourth millennium BCE, during Britain's Early Neolithic period.
5.3 miNW
Memorial
Faversham Munitions Explosion Memorial, Faversham
135 min walk • The memorial to the victims of the 1916 Faversham Munitions Explosion is a Grade II* listed building in Love Lane cemetery, in Faversham, Kent.
3.1 miS
Park
Olantigh, Kent Downs
80 min walk • Olantigh is a house 1 mile north of Wye in Kent, southeast England. It includes a garden of 20 acres. The hamlet in which the property stands is Little Olantigh.