English Heritage sites near Mountnessing Parish
HILL HALL
9 miles from Mountnessing Parish
This fine Elizabethan mansion features some of the earliest external Renaissance architectural detail in the country.
HADLEIGH CASTLE
13 miles from Mountnessing 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.
TILBURY FORT
14 miles from Mountnessing 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 Mountnessing 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.
WALTHAM ABBEY GATEHOUSE AND BRIDGE
16 miles from Mountnessing Parish
A fine 14th century gatehouse, bridge and other remains of the abbey refounded by Harold, last Saxon King of England.
UPNOR CASTLE
18 miles from Mountnessing Parish
Set in tranquil grounds adjoining a riverside village, this rare example of an Elizabethan artillery fort was begun in 1559 and redeveloped in 1599-1601, to protect warships at Chatham dockyards.
Churches in Mountnessing Parish
Mountnessing: St Giles
Pubs in Mountnessing Parish
George & Dragon
294 Roman Road, Mountnessing, CM15 0TZ
(01277) 352461
thegeorgeanddragonbrentwood.co.uk
Plough
169 Roman Road, Mountnessing, CM15 0UG
(01277) 352026
theploughmountnessing.co.uk
Prince of Wales
199 Roman Road, Mountnessing, CM15 0UG
(01277) 353445
theprinceofwalesmountnessing.co.uk