Foord Almshouses

Places of Interest Nearby

Foord Almshouses Nos 48-64

Residential building

Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Foord Almshouses Nos 48-64 is a residential building, which is situated 380 feet northeast of Foord Almshouses.

Rochester Cathedral

Church

Photo: Raggatt2000, Public domain.

Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in Rochester, Kent, England. The cathedral is the mother church of the Church of England Diocese of Rochester and seat of the Bishop of Rochester, the second oldest bishopric in England after that of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Rochester Cathedral is situated 1 mile northeast of Foord Almshouses.

Fort Borstal

Fort

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fort Borstal was built as an afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, by convict labour. Construction started in 1875 but was suspended in 1885. Fort Borstal is situated 2,300 feet southwest of Foord Almshouses.

Places in the Area

Borstal

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Borstal is a location in the Medway unitary authority of Kent in South East England. Originally a village near Rochester, it has become absorbed by the expansion of that town. The youth prison at Borstal gave its name to the Borstal reform school system.

Rochester

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Rochester is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Together with its neighbouring towns of Chatham and Gillingham it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.

Medway Gate

Locality

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Medway Gate, formerly Cuxton Pit No. 3, is a modern residential neighbourhood, built within a former chalk quarry, in Strood, in the Medway district, in the ceremonial county of Kent, England.

Foord Almshouses

Satellite Map

Places with the Same Name

Notable Places Nearby

Nearby Places

Curious Bus Stops to Discover

• Deutsch
• Español
• Français
• Português