Castle · near Cliffe · Kent

Cooling Castle

Cooling Castle is a quadrangular castle. The site is 1.4 km east of Cliffe. It is a scheduled monument.

Photo: Cooling Castle, shirokazan (CC BY 2.0)

Where

1.4 km

east of Cliffe

How well known

Top 18%

#1,466 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 17–23°C

In brief

Castle near Cliffe

Just outside Cliffe

Cooling Castle is 1.4 km east of Cliffe. Towns near it ↓

Scheduled monument

On the official list of protected heritage; Cliffe has 15 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Weather, month by month

The warmest stretch in Cliffe is May to September, at 17–23°C in the afternoon.

Jan8° / 3°50 mm

Feb9° / 2°41 mm

Mar11° / 4°34 mm

Apr14° / 5°39 mm

May17° / 8°42 mm

Jun21° / 11°48 mm

Jul23° / 13°43 mm

Aug23° / 13°46 mm

Sep20° / 11°51 mm

Oct16° / 8°69 mm

Nov11° / 5°60 mm

Dec9° / 3°53 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Cliffe, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Cliffe. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Cliffe’s full climate →

About

Cooling Castle

6 Wikipedia editions have an article on it. Our list has 51 more places within 15 km; first among them is Rochester Castle, at 7.4 km.

Cliffe’s listed buildings and monuments →

Type: Castle
Listed: Scheduled monument
Wikipedias: Covered in 6 languages
Town: 1.4 km east of Cliffe

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

The way to Cooling Castle

The numbers show what else is near Cooling Castle, in the order listed below.

Towns near it

Towns close to Cooling Castle

By population, Rochester leads the 8 with 67,279. The towns whose pages list it: the one it is in, those within 5 km of it, then larger towns further out.

1 · 1.4 km west of it

Cliffe

2,531 people · 2 places to visit

2 · 2.3 km east of it

High Halstow

1,823 people · 5 places to visit

3 · 2.3 km southwest of it

Cliffe Woods

2,689 people · 18 places to visit

4 · 3.3 km south of it

Chattenden

2,417 people · 24 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Cooling Castle is	People	Places to visit
Cliffe	1.4 km west of it	2,531	2
High Halstow	2.3 km east of it	1,823	5
Cliffe Woods	2.3 km southwest of it	2,689	18
Chattenden	3.3 km south of it	2,417	24
Hoo St Werburgh	3.4 km southeast of it	8,758	25
Rochester	4.1 km south of it	67,279	34
Lower Higham	4.4 km southwest of it	685	11
Lower Upnor	4.7 km south of it	837	27

Each has its own grades, prices and things to do.

Make a day of it

Next door to Cooling Castle

Among the 51 within 15 km are 4 historic ships, 3 castles and a cathedral.

Castle · English HeritageRochester Castle7.4 km away 2

CathedralRochester Cathedral7.5 km away 3

Castle · English HeritageUpnor Castle5.4 km away 4

Castle · English HeritageHadleigh Castle12 km away 5

Historic shipHMS Cavalier6.7 km away 6

Historic shipHMS Gannet6.6 km away 7

Historic shipHMS Ocelot6.7 km away 8

Historic shipRussian Foxtrot B-39 (U 475)6.8 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Quick answers on Cooling Castle

Where is Cooling Castle?

Cooling Castle is 1.4 km east of Cliffe, Kent.

What is Cooling Castle?

Quadrangular castle in Cooling, Medway, Kent, United Kingdom.

When is the best time to visit Cooling Castle?

May to September are the warmest months in Cliffe, with afternoon highs of 17–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

Is Cooling Castle a listed building?

Yes: scheduled monument.

What else is there to see near Cooling Castle?

Within 15 km: Rochester Castle (7.4 km), Rochester Cathedral (7.5 km), Upnor Castle (5.4 km) and Hadleigh Castle (12 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

Cooling Castle: shirokazan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Rochester Castle: Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Rochester Cathedral: Raggatt2000, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Upnor Castle: Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Hadleigh Castle: JohnArmagh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
HMS Cavalier: en:User:Swpmre, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
HMS Gannet: Paul Englefield from Leamington Spa, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
HMS Ocelot: Mark.murphy at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Russian Foxtrot B-39 (U 475): Hammersfan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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