Chilham Castle
Chilham Castle is a Jacobean manor house and keep in the village of Chilham, between Ashford and Canterbury in the county of Kent, England. The keep is of Norman origin and dates to 1174, although it may have been built on an older Anglo-Saxon fortification.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Mary, Chilham and The White Horse.
Church of St Mary, Chilham
Church
The White Horse
Restaurant
Photo: Jonathan Cardy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The White Horse is a restaurant, which is situated 700 feet northeast of Chilham Castle.
Woolpack Inn
Pub
Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woolpack Inn is a pub, which is situated 1,300 feet east of Chilham Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chilham and Old Wives Lees.
Chilham
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chilham is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Ashford in Kent, England. It sits on the north bank of the Great Stour around 5+1⁄2 miles to the southwest of Canterbury and seven miles northeast of Ashford.
Godmersham
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Godmersham is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village straddles the Great Stour river where it cuts through the North Downs and its land is approximately one third woodland, all in the far east and west on the escarpment of the North Downs. Godmersham is situated 2 miles south of Chilham Castle.
Chilham Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: Grade I listed country house in Chilham, Kent, England, UK
- Categories: house, English country house, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Chilham, Ashford, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.24299° or 51° 14′ 35″ northLongitude
0.95984° or 0° 57′ 35″ eastElevation
200 feet (61 metres)Open location code
9F326XV5+5WOpenStreetMap ID
way 231443457OpenStreetMap feature
building=castleOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleGeoNames ID
6287213Wikidata ID
Q5098912
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Chilham Castle” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Chilham gaztelua”
- Cebuano: “Chilham Castle”
- Danish: “Chilham Castle”
- French: “château de Chilham”
- French: “Château de Chilham”
- German: “Chilham Castle”
- Spanish: “Chilham Castle”
- Swedish: “Chilham Castle”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Chilham Castle”. Photo: Daywalker, CC BY-SA 2.0.