Cooling Castle
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.
- Historic site
- …lies at an elevation of around 20 feet (10 metres)
- Description: quadrangular castle in Cooling, Medway, Kent, United Kingdom
- Also known as“Cooling Castle and its associated landscaped setting”“Cooling Castle Gate House”
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Villages in the Area
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Hoo St Werburgh
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2½ miles southeast of Cooling Castle
Cooling Castle
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Latitude
51.45482° or 51° 27′ 17″ north
Longitude
0.52296° or 0° 31′ 23″ east
Open location code
9F32FG3F+W5
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OpenStreetMap feature
historic = yes
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cooling Castle” goes by many names.
Cooling CastleCebuano
Cooling CastleDanish
Castello di CoolingItalian
Cooling CastleSwedish
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