More about Cobham

MORE ABOUT COBHAM

Travel The parish can be reached by South Eastern Trains to Sole Street station. The half hourly service links the parish to London , Bromley, Rochester, Chatham and the Kent coast

Bus service 416 operated by Kent Top Travel and Redroute Buses links the villages of Cobham and Sole Street with Gravesend and the neighbouring villages of Meopham and Shorne. A shopping bus service sponsored by Cobham Parish Council connects the parish with Gravesend each Thursday.

Tourism Information What to see in Cobham

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Visit Cobham Hall on certain summer weekends, when the house and gardens are open to the public.
The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene and Cobham College, accessible from The Street, Cobham.
National; Trust properties, Owletts, Cobham and the Yeomans House, Sole Street, The latter by appointment only

Accommodation "Leather Bottle" inn, The Street, Cobham. Tel 01474 814327.
Bed & Breakfast Burleigh Farmhouse, Sole Street Road, Cobham. Tel 01474 813843

Public Houses "Darnley Arms," "Leather Bottle" and "Ship Inn," The Street, Cobham. "The Railway" Sole Street.

Shops "Village Stores" The Street, Cobham and "Ye Little Shoppe" Sole Street.

Post Office at "Ye Little Shoppe" (9am to 1pm Monday to Saturday)

Village Halls "Meadow Rooms," The Street, Cobham and "St Mary's Church Room," Sole Street.

Playing Field and children's play area, behind the school, The Street, Cobham.

School Cobham Primary School, The Street, Cobham. Tel 01474 814373

Cobham Hall

Cobham Hall stands in parkland at the eastern end of the village of Cobham and is reached by a drive which turns off the road to Shorne. The hall is an imposing red-brick manor of the late Elizabethan period, to which many additions and alterations have been made over the centuries. The park is the largest in the south-east and was originally the hunting park of the de Cobhams. The grounds were laid out in the early 18th century by Humphrey Repton.

Church of St Mary Magdalene

On the chancel floor is the finest collection of medieval brass memorials in England, spanning the years 1320 to 1529. Most of them commemorate members of the de Cobham and Brooke families

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Cobham College

The college founded by Sir John de Cobham in 1362 as a chantry for priests is just south of the church. The buildings were converted into almshouses in 1598 and still serve that purpose today.

Owletts

A fine brick building, built in 1684, stands in comparative isolation at the west end of the village. Now owned by the National Trust and open April to October