Cooling Castle
Kent, England
Cooling Castle is a quadrangular castle in Kent, England, first built in 1380. It is a scheduled monument. The nearest other castle is Upnor Castle, 3.4 mi away.
Cooling Castle at a glance
Built
1380
14th century
Type
Quadrangular castle
Heritage status
scheduled monument
Architect
Henry Yevele
About Cooling Castle
Cooling Castle is a 14th-century quadrangular castle in the village of Cooling, Kent on the Hoo Peninsula about 6 miles (9.7 km) 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.
From the Wikipedia article on Cooling Castle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cooling Castle sits at 51.4555, 0.5227 in Kent. The closest other castles are Upnor Castle (3.4 mi), Rochester Castle (4.7 mi) and Hadleigh Castle (7.1 mi). Kent has 28 castles in all.
