English Heritage sites near Little Burstead Parish
HADLEIGH CASTLE
10 miles from Little Burstead 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.
TILBURY FORT
11 miles from Little Burstead 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.
MILTON CHANTRY
11 miles from Little Burstead 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.
HILL HALL
12 miles from Little Burstead Parish
This fine Elizabethan mansion features some of the earliest external Renaissance architectural detail in the country.
UPNOR CASTLE
15 miles from Little Burstead 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.
TEMPLE MANOR
15 miles from Little Burstead Parish
Part of a manor house of the Knights Templar, built in about 1240, with a fine first floor hall displaying traces of wall paintings.
Churches in Little Burstead Parish
Little Burstead: St Mary the Virgin
Pubs in Little Burstead Parish
Burstead Golf Club
Tye Common Road, Little Burstead, Billericay, CM12 9SS
(01277) 653616
Duke's Head
Laindon Common Road, Little Burstead, Little Burstead, CM12 9TA
(01277) 651333
dukesheadlittleburstead.co.uk/