English Heritage sites near Fordwich Parish
ST AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY
1 miles from Fordwich Parish
This great abbey, marking the rebirth of Christianity in southern England, was founded shortly after AD 597 by St Augustine.
ST AUGUSTINE'S CONDUIT HOUSE
1 miles from Fordwich Parish
The Conduit House is part of the monastic waterworks which supplied nearby St Augustine's Abbey.
RECULVER TOWERS AND ROMAN FORT
7 miles from Fordwich Parish
An imposing landmark, the twin 12th-century towers of the ruined church stand amid the remains of an important Roman 'Saxon Shore' fort and a Saxon monastery.
RICHBOROUGH ROMAN FORT AND AMPHITHEATRE
9 miles from Fordwich Parish
Evocatively sited amid the East Kent marshes, Richborough is perhaps the most symbolically important of all Roman sites in Britain, witnessing both the beginning and almost the end of Roman rule here.
ST AUGUSTINE'S CROSS
10 miles from Fordwich Parish
This 19th-century cross of Saxon design marks what is traditionally thought to have been the site of St Augustine's landing on the shores of England in AD 597.
ST JOHN'S COMMANDERY
10 miles from Fordwich Parish
The flint-walled 13th-century chapel and hall of a 'Commandery' of Knights Hospitallers, later converted into a farmhouse.
No churches found in Fordwich Parish
Pubs in Fordwich Parish
Fordwich Arms
King Street, Fordwich, CT2 0DB
(01227) 710444
fordwicharms.co.uk