English Heritage sites near Herongate and Ingrave Parish
HILL HALL
10 miles from Herongate and Ingrave Parish
This fine Elizabethan mansion features some of the earliest external Renaissance architectural detail in the country.
TILBURY FORT
10 miles from Herongate and Ingrave 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
11 miles from Herongate and Ingrave 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
12 miles from Herongate and Ingrave 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.
UPNOR CASTLE
15 miles from Herongate and Ingrave 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.
TEMPLE MANOR
16 miles from Herongate and Ingrave Parish
Part of a manor house of the Knights Templar, built in about 1240, with a fine first floor hall displaying traces of wall paintings.
Churches in Herongate and Ingrave Parish
Ingrave: St Nicholas
Pubs in Herongate and Ingrave Parish
Boar's Head
15 Billericay Road, Herongate, CM13 3PS
(01277) 810324
chefandbrewer.com/pubs/essex/boars-head
Green Man
11 Cricketers Lane, Herongate, CM13 3PZ
(01277) 810292
greenmanherongate.co.uk/
Olde Dog Inn
129 Billericay Road, Herongate Tye, CM13 3SD
(01277) 810337
theoldedoginn.co.uk