10 miles from Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre 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.

18 miles from Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre 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.

19 miles from Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre 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.

19 miles from Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre Parish

This fine Elizabethan mansion features some of the earliest external Renaissance architectural detail in the country.

19 miles from Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre 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.

19 miles from Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre Parish

The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester.