English Heritage sites near Highwood Parish
HILL HALL
10 miles from Highwood Parish
This fine Elizabethan mansion features some of the earliest external Renaissance architectural detail in the country.
HADLEIGH CASTLE
15 miles from Highwood Parish
The romantic ruins of a royal castle overlooking the Essex marshes. Hadleigh was begun in about 1215 by Hubert de Burgh, but extensively refortified by Edward III during the Hundred Years War.
WALTHAM ABBEY GATEHOUSE AND BRIDGE
16 miles from Highwood Parish
A fine 14th century gatehouse, bridge and other remains of the abbey refounded by Harold, last Saxon King of England.
TILBURY FORT
18 miles from Highwood 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.
PRIOR'S HALL BARN
18 miles from Highwood Parish
One of the finest surviving medieval barns in eastern England, tree-ring dated to the mid-15th century, with a breathtaking aisled interior and crown post roof, the product of some 400 oaks.
MILTON CHANTRY
19 miles from Highwood 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.
Churches in Highwood Parish
Highwood: St Paul
Pubs in Highwood Parish
Cuckoo
Fox & Goose
Wyses Road, Highwood, CM1 3SN
(01245) 248245
foxandgoosepub.co.uk
Green Man
Highwood Road, Edney Common, CM1 3QE
(01245) 248076
greenmanedneycommon.co.uk