Cliffe and Cliffe Woods
Cliffe and Cliffe Woods is a civil parish in the borough of Medway in Kent, England. The parish is located on the Hoo Peninsula and comprises the villages of Cliffe and the suburb, Cliffe Woods.Places of Interest
Highlights include Cliffe Fort and Cooling Castle.
Cliffe Fort
Fort
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Cliffe Fort is a disused artillery fort built in the 1860s to guard the entrance to the River Thames from seaborne attack. Constructed during a period of tension with France, it stands on the south bank of the river at the entrance to Cliffe Creek in the Cliffe marshes on the Hoo Peninsula in North Kent, England.
Cooling Castle
Ruins
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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
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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 Cliffe and East Tilbury.
Cliffe
Village
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.
East Tilbury
Village
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East Tilbury is a community in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. The community is in two main parts, being the older village near the banks of the River Thames, and a garden village to the north which was initially called Bataville, founded in the 1930s to serve the Bata shoe factory. East Tilbury is situated 3½ miles northwest of Cliffe and Cliffe Woods.
Hoo St Werburgh
Village
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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 4 miles southeast of Cliffe and Cliffe Woods.
Cliffe and Cliffe Woods
- Type: Locality with 5,560 residents
- Description: civil parish in Medway, Kent, England, UK
- Category: civil parish
- Location: Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Cliffe and Cliffe Woods” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cliffe and Cliffe Woods”
- Dutch: “Cliffe and Cliffe Woods”
- French: “Cliffe and Cliffe Woods”
- German: “Cliffe and Cliffe Woods”
- Irish: “Cliffe agus Cliffe Woods”
- Polish: “Cliffe and Cliffe Woods”
- Spanish: “Cliffe and Cliffe Woods”
- Swedish: “Cliffe and Cliffe Woods”
- Turkish: “Cliffe and Cliffe Woods”
- “Cliffe and Cliffe Woods”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cooling Castle and Cooling Marshes.
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