English Heritage sites near Bishopsbourne Parish
ST AUGUSTINE'S CONDUIT HOUSE
4 miles from Bishopsbourne Parish
The Conduit House is part of the monastic waterworks which supplied nearby St Augustine's Abbey.
ST AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY
4 miles from Bishopsbourne Parish
This great abbey, marking the rebirth of Christianity in southern England, was founded shortly after AD 597 by St Augustine.
ST JOHN'S COMMANDERY
6 miles from Bishopsbourne Parish
The flint-walled 13th-century chapel and hall of a 'Commandery' of Knights Hospitallers, later converted into a farmhouse.
RICHBOROUGH ROMAN FORT AND AMPHITHEATRE
10 miles from Bishopsbourne 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.
WESTERN HEIGHTS, DOVER
11 miles from Bishopsbourne Parish
A huge fortification begun during the Napoleonic Wars and completed in the 1860s, designed to protect Dover from French invasion. Only the moat can be visited.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR CHURCH, DOVER
11 miles from Bishopsbourne Parish
The foundations of a small medieval church, traditionally said to have been the site of King John's submission to the Papal Legate in 1213.
Churches in Bishopsbourne Parish
St Mary the Virgin
Park Lane
Bishopsbourne
Canterbury
(01227) 668190
http://www.barhamdownschurches.org.uk
Bishopsbourne's main claim to fame is that Richard Hooker was the Rector here from 1595 - 1600. Hooker, one of the fathers of Anglicanism, is known for his 8-volume 'Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'. The church also boasts mediaeval wall paintings, a Burne-Jones stained glass window, and William Morris design tiles around the chancel walls. Bishopsbourne is now in a group of churches, along with Barham, Kingston, Womenswold and Adisham.
Pubs in Bishopsbourne Parish
Mermaid
The Street, Bishopsbourne, CT4 5HX
(01227) 830581
mermaidinnbishopsbourne.co.uk