Welcome to RSPB Higham Marshes
Welcome to RSPB Higham Marshes is in Shorne, Borough of Gravesham, England. Welcome to RSPB Higham Marshes is situated nearby to the nature reserve Higham Bight, as well as near the lighthouse Shornemead Light.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cliffe Fort and Shornemead Fort.
Cliffe Fort
Fort
Photo: Cgfletch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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. Cliffe Fort is situated 1 mile north of Welcome to RSPB Higham Marshes.
Shornemead Fort
Ruins
Photo: Prioryman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shornemead Fort is a now-disused artillery fort that was built in the 1860s to guard the entrance to the Thames from seaborne attack. Constructed during a period of tension with France, it stands on the south bank of the river at a point where the Thames curves sharply north and west, giving the fort long views up and downriver in both directions. Shornemead Fort is situated 3,500 feet southwest of Welcome to RSPB Higham Marshes.
St Mary’s Church, Higham
Church
St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Higham, 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. St Mary’s Church, Higham is situated 1 mile southeast of Welcome to RSPB Higham Marshes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cliffe and Chalk.
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. Cliffe is situated 2½ miles east of Welcome to RSPB Higham Marshes.
Chalk
Village
Chalk is a village and since 1935 a former civil parish which adjoins the east of Gravesend, in the Gravesham district, in the county of Kent, England. Chalk is situated 2½ miles southwest of Welcome to RSPB Higham Marshes.
East Tilbury
Village
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 2½ miles northwest of Welcome to RSPB Higham Marshes.
Welcome to RSPB Higham Marshes
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- Categories: information and tourism
- Location: Shorne, Borough of Gravesham, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.45034° or 51° 27′ 1″ northLongitude
0.44818° or 0° 26′ 54″ eastOperator
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