English Heritage sites near Doddinghurst Parish
HILL HALL
6 miles from Doddinghurst Parish
This fine Elizabethan mansion features some of the earliest external Renaissance architectural detail in the country.
WALTHAM ABBEY GATEHOUSE AND BRIDGE
13 miles from Doddinghurst Parish
A fine 14th century gatehouse, bridge and other remains of the abbey refounded by Harold, last Saxon King of England.
TILBURY FORT
14 miles from Doddinghurst Parish
Spend a great family day out at Tilbury Fort in Essex. Explore the magazine houses or the bastion magazine passages of this fort on the Thames estuary that has protected London’s seaward approach.
MILTON CHANTRY
15 miles from Doddinghurst Parish
Milton Chantry is all that remains of a 14th-century hospital later used in turn as a public house, a Georgian barracks, and Second World War gas decontamination chamber.
HADLEIGH CASTLE
15 miles from Doddinghurst Parish
The romantic ruins of a royal castle overlooking the Essex marshes. Hadleigh was begun in about 1215 by Hubert de Burgh, but extensively refortified by Edward III during the Hundred Years War.
ELTHAM PALACE AND GARDENS
18 miles from Doddinghurst Parish
Once a favoured medieval palace and then a Tudor royal residence, Eltham Palace was transformed into a striking Art Deco mansion by eccentric millionaires Stephen and Viriginia Courtauld.