English Heritage sites near Halling Parish
TEMPLE MANOR
3 miles from Halling 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.
ROCHESTER CASTLE
4 miles from Halling 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
4 miles from Halling 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.
ST LEONARD'S TOWER
5 miles from Halling Parish
An early and well-preserved example of a small free-standing Norman tower keep, surviving almost to its original height.
UPNOR CASTLE
6 miles from Halling Parish
Set in tranquil grounds adjoining a riverside village, this rare example of an Elizabethan artillery fort was begun in 1559 and redeveloped in 1599-1601, to protect warships at Chatham dockyards.
MILTON CHANTRY
7 miles from Halling 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 Halling Parish
Halling: St John The Baptist
High Street
Halling
Rochester
01634717134
http://www.cuxtonandhalling.org.uk
Parish Safeguarding Officer
Anne Abraham
2, Reservoir Cottages,
Upper Halling.
07511 915238
Pubs in Halling Parish
Five Bells
Homeward Bound
72 High Street, Halling, ME2 1BY
(01634) 240743
homewardboundhalling.co.uk/