English Heritage sites near High Ongar Parish
HILL HALL
6 miles from High Ongar Parish
This fine Elizabethan mansion features some of the earliest external Renaissance architectural detail in the country.
WALTHAM ABBEY GATEHOUSE AND BRIDGE
12 miles from High Ongar Parish
A fine 14th century gatehouse, bridge and other remains of the abbey refounded by Harold, last Saxon King of England.
PRIOR'S HALL BARN
18 miles from High Ongar Parish
One of the finest surviving medieval barns in eastern England, tree-ring dated to the mid-15th century, with a breathtaking aisled interior and crown post roof, the product of some 400 oaks.
HADLEIGH CASTLE
18 miles from High Ongar 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
18 miles from High Ongar 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
19 miles from High Ongar 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.
Churches in High Ongar Parish
High Ongar: St Mary the Virgin
THE STREET
High Ongar
Ongar
(01277) 362593
http://parishofhighongar.org/
We are an all-age friendly evangelical fellowship, which means people of all different ages attend services, from the very young up to those in their eighties and nineties. We especially want to encourage children and young adults to have a great time as they find out about and grow in their own personal faith in Jesus.
Norton Mandeville: All Saints
Pubs in High Ongar Parish
Forresters Arms
The Street, High Ongar, CM5 9NH
(01277) 366656
theforrestersarms.co.uk/