St. Mary's Church

#1810 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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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. The church stands near the end of a road to the north of Lower Higham, some 4 miles northwest of Rochester. ()

Coordinates: 51°26'27"N, 0°28'6"E

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Church StME3 7LS EnglandUnited Kingdom

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St. Mary's Church – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Upnor Castle, Coalhouse Fort, Cooling Castle, Cliffe Fort.

3.5 miSE
Museum, Military museum, Forts and castles
Upnor Castle, Gillingham
89 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.
2.3 miNW
Forts and castles, Historical place
Coalhouse Fort
58 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.
2.5 miNE
Entertainment, Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture
Cooling Castle, Gillingham
65 min walk • Cooling Castle is a 14th-century quadrangular castle in the village of Cooling, Kent on the Hoo Peninsula about 6 miles north of Rochester.
1.7 miN
Forts and castles
Cliffe Fort
43 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.
3.3 miSW
Park
Shorne Wood Country Park
86 min walk • Shorne Wood Country Park is located between Strood and Gravesend, in the English county of Kent. It was once part of a large estate and then later passed to the county council to be used as a country park.
1.4 miW
Forts and castles
Shornemead Fort
37 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.
2.7 miE
Church
St James' Church
69 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.
3.4 miSE
Forest
Tower Hill to Cockham Wood, Gillingham
88 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.
2.5 miS
Forest
Great Crabbles Wood, Strood
65 min walk • Great Crabbles Wood is a 33-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Rochester in Kent. Most of the wood is mixed coppice, with sweet chestnut dominant and oak standards.
3.5 miSW
Forest
Shorne and Ashenbank Woods, Kent Downs
90 min walk • Shorne and Ashenbank Woods is a 197.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Rochester and Gravesend in Kent. Part of it is Shorne Wood Country Park.
3.3 miSE
Area
Frindsbury, Gillingham
83 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.