Cliffe
Cliffe is a village in the civil parish of Cliffe and Cliffe Woods, in the borough of Medway in the ceremonial county of Kent, England. It is on the Hoo Peninsula, reached from the Medway Towns by a three-mile journey along the B2000 road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 2,400 residents
- Description: village in Kent, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Cliffe-at-Hoo”, “Cliffe, Kent”, and “Clive”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Helen and Cooling Castle.
Cooling Castle
Ruins
Photo: shirokazan, CC BY 2.0.
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.
St James’ Church, Cooling
Church
Photo: Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wainscott and Hoo St Werburgh.
Wainscott
Village
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wainscott is a small village in Rochester, in Kent, England. It is in the civil parish of Frindsbury Extra, in the Medway Unitary Authority, that is Medway Council. Wainscott is situated 3½ miles south of Cliffe.
Hoo St Werburgh
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Hoo St Werburgh is situated 3½ miles southeast of Cliffe.
East Tilbury
Village
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Tilbury, historically known as Great Tilbury, is a community, ward and former civil parish in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. The community includes two neighbouring settlements, the historic East Tilbury Village near the riverfront and the industrial garden village of Bataville, which was built between the 1930s to 1960s to serve the Bata shoe factory. East Tilbury is situated 4 miles west of Cliffe.
Cliffe
- Category: locality
- Location: Cliffe and Cliffe Woods, Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.46238° or 51° 27′ 45″ northLongitude
0.50067° or 0° 30′ 2″ eastPopulation
2,400Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CLFOpen location code
9F32FG62+X7OpenStreetMap ID
node 27301099OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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