Cliffe
Cliffe is a village in the civil parish of Cliffe and Cliffe Woods, in the borough of Medway in the ceremonial county of Kent, England.
Cliffe is a village in the civil parish of Cliffe and Cliffe Woods, in the borough of Medway in the ceremonial county of Kent, England. It is on the Hoo Peninsula, reached from the Medway Towns by a three-mile (4.8 km) journey along the B2000 road. Situated upon a low chalk escarpment overlooking the Thames marshes, Cliffe offers views of Southend-on-Sea and London. In 774 Offa, King of Mercia, built a rustic wooden church dedicated to St Helen, a popular Mercian saint who was by legend the daughter of Coel of Colchester. Cliffe is cited in early records as having been called Clive and Cliffe-at-Hoo. In 1961 the parish had a population of 2239. On 1 April 1997 the parish was abolished to form "Cliffe & Cliffe Woods", part of which consisting of Frindsbury Extra.
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Worth seeing in and around Cliffe
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Cooling Castle
Cooling Castle is a 14th-century quadrangular castle in the village of Cooling, Kent on the Hoo Peninsula about 6 miles north of Rochester. It was built in the 1380s by the Cobham family, the local lords of the manor, to guard the area against French raids into the Thames Estuary.
1.9 km · quadrangular castle in Cooling, Medway, Kent, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02St James' Church, Cooling
St James' Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Cooling, Kent, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
2.1 km · church in Cooling, Medway, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Mary's Church, Higham
St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Higham, Kent, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.1 km · Grade I listed church in Higham, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cliffe
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 50 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 59 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 66 km
- Stations
- Cliffe railway station, 1.8 km
- London → Cliffe44 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £5–7
- London, Essex → Cliffe44 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £5–7
- Luton, Luton → Cliffe78 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £11–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cliffe
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cliffe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Cliffe
Cliffe is 42 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Coolingvillage and civil parish in Kent, England2.1 km
- Cliffe Woodsvillage in Kent, England, UK3 km