A report on Medway

Dutch Attack on the Medway, June 1667 by Pieter Cornelisz van Soest, painted c. 1667. The captured ship is right of centre
The Chatham Naval Memorial commemorates the 18,500 officers, ranks and ratings of the Royal Navy who were lost or buried at sea in the two World Wars. It stands on the Great Lines between Chatham and Gillingham.
Chatham High Street, December 2007
Chatham Bus Interchange Station, October 2011
The Quays, Chatham Dockside, December 2009
A view of the Medway Gate development, June 2009.
A view of former The Black Lion Leisure Centre (Now Medway Park), April 2009.
The A2 crossing the Medway at Rochester on the site of the Roman crossings, the medieval crossing was to the south
Junction Two of the M2 is on the A228, just before the Medway motorway bridge. Alongside is High Speed 1. Both are seen climbing up the Nashenden Valley, towards Bluebell Hill.

Unitary authority district and conurbation in Kent, South East England.

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Looking from the river at Sun Pier along the Great Barrier Ditch, to the Gun Platforms at Fort Amherst

Chatham, Kent

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Looking from the river at Sun Pier along the Great Barrier Ditch, to the Gun Platforms at Fort Amherst
Medway Council Building at Gun Wharf
Chatham Town Hall (opened in 1900) now serves as a theatre.
(1) Chatham Dockyard, seen from Fort Pitt, ca. 1830.
(2) Chatham Town Centre from the Great Lines
(3) Luton Valley, from Darland Banks
Chatham Naval Memorial
The A2 road at Luton Arches. The New Road runs underneath the Luton Arches Footbridge.
Sir John Hawkins Flyover, which was demolished in 2009.
Chatham Waterfront bus station
Ordnance Terrace in October 2007

Chatham is a town located within the Medway unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Kent, England.

Eastgate House, Rochester, Kent

Rochester, Kent

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Eastgate House, Rochester, Kent
Rochester Castle from across the Medway (engraving, G.F. Sargent c. 1836)
Arms of diocese of Rochester
The Guildhall, Rochester
Sweeps festival in 2006
Rochester High Street
The old Rochester Station (overground): the rail tracks run along a viaduct.

Rochester is a town in the unitary authority of Medway, in Kent, England.

High Speed 1 and the M2 form the southwestern boundary of Strood.

Strood

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High Speed 1 and the M2 form the southwestern boundary of Strood.
A Eurostar train passing Strood heading for the Medway Viaduct
The River Medway and its marshes in Strood, showing Strood juxtaposed with Rochester
The far end of Medway Valley Leisure Park.
The Crispin and Crispianus pub is typical of the shiplapped houses in Strood on the higher ground, On 27 March 2011 the pub was set alight.
A Strood-built road roller, standing in the grounds of the former Aveling and Porter factory in 1993
Strood Retail Park
1863 Map of Strood and Frindsbury: note the undrained land between the railway and Frindsbury Hill, the creeks behind the Civic Centre and the lack of houses.
1909 Map of Strood and Frindsbury: note the growth in houses. There is no separation between Strood and Frindsbury, an extra church in Frindsbury parish to accommodate the new houses, and note also how Jane's Creek has been developed; later this will be back filled to provide land for retail.
A British Rail Class 466 unit and a British Rail Class 395 unit at Strood railway station
The remains of Jane's Creek in 2006
Work progresses on the foundations of the first houses in the Medway Gate Housing Development.
The former Edwardian Aveling & Porter building March 2010
Grade II listed St Nicholas church, Strood
Front elevation of Strood Methodist Church
Plaque recording the use of the church as an auxiliary hospital during the Great War 1914–1918
An illustration of flowers including Columbine and larkspur by Anne Pratt

Strood is a town in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, South East England.

An early mention of Kent in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle between 11th and 12th centuries

Kent

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County in South East England and one of the home counties.

County in South East England and one of the home counties.

An early mention of Kent in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle between 11th and 12th centuries
The traditional Kent flag
Title page of William Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent (completed in 1570 and published in 1576), a historical description of Kent and the first published county history
The White Cliffs of Dover
View of the White Cliffs of Dover from France
Geological cross-section of Kent, showing how it relates to major towns
Converted oast houses at Frittenden
Canterbury Cathedral
The M2 and High Speed 1 crossing the Medway Valley, south of Rochester
A 300 km/h Eurostar train at km 48 (mile 30) on High Speed 1, near Strood
Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway
Priestfield Stadium is the home of Gillingham FC, Kent's only Football League team

Forts were built all along the coast following the raid on the Medway, a successful attack by the Dutch navy on the shipyards of the Medway towns in 1667.

River Medway

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River in South East England.

River in South East England.

Dusk at Lower Upnor on the Medway Estuary
Frindsbury Church above the former entrance to the Thames and Medway Canal
Lower Saxony arms coat of arms
The Medway flows through Tonbridge in many channels. The South Eastern Main Line crosses the Medway.
The Botany stream forms another channel in Tonbridge.
Tonbridge Castle, a motte-and-bailey castle from 1066.
The River Medway passes Tonbridge Castle and passes under Big Bridge.
Oak Weir Lock
River Bourne enters the Medway
Sluice Weir, on the right is the lock
The sluice at Yalding
Hampstead Lane Lock, Yalding
Bow Bridge, Wateringbury
Teston Lock
Upstream from Teston Bridge
Barges moored on the Medway at Aylesford
Medieval bridge at Aylesford
Grain and Thamesport, from Horrid Hill, Gillingham.
The Grain Tower at low tide.
The mouth of the Medway, looking from Grain to Sheerness.
And into the Thames, youngsters at Grain with Southend beyond.
M2 crossing the Medway.
Isle of Grain and the Medway Estuary from the air
Allington Lock and Sluice gates

It rises in the High Weald, East Sussex and flows through Tonbridge, Maidstone and the Medway conurbation in Kent, before emptying into the Thames Estuary near Sheerness, a total distance of 70 mi. About 13 mi of the river lies in East Sussex, with the remainder being in Kent.

The River Medway estuary at The Strand, Gillingham. The Kingsnorth power stations are on the opposite bank.

Gillingham, Kent

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The River Medway estuary at The Strand, Gillingham. The Kingsnorth power stations are on the opposite bank.
Chatham Naval Memorial on the Gillingham Great Lines
Arriva Southern Counties bus depot in Gillingham
East Kent Signal Centre
Gillingham Library
Priestfield Stadium, Home of the Gills
A view of former The Black Lion Leisure Centre (Now Medway Park), April 2009.
The open-air swimming pool at The Strand
Brompton Academy (Upbury Manor School), the entrance
A view of St Mary Magdeline Church
A view of Our Lady of Gillingham Catholic Church.
St. Mark Church

Gillingham is a large town in the unitary authority area of Medway in the ceremonial county of Kent, England.

Junction 2 of the M2, the roundabout on the A228, showing the motorway crossing the Medway and climbing up the Nashenden Valley. Alongside is High Speed 1.

M2 motorway (Great Britain)

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Motorway in Kent, England.

Motorway in Kent, England.

Junction 2 of the M2, the roundabout on the A228, showing the motorway crossing the Medway and climbing up the Nashenden Valley. Alongside is High Speed 1.
Junction 5 of the M2
The widened section approaching the lane drop at Junction 4

It is 26 mi long and acts as a bypass of the section of the A2 road to run past the Medway Towns, Sittingbourne, Faversham, and to provide an alternative route to the Port of Dover, supplementing the M20.

Lower Rainham Road

Rainham, Kent

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Lower Rainham Road
Rainham station
Rainham station in 1992
Looking across the Medway from Horrid Hill, Riverside Country Park.

Rainham is a town in the unitary authority of Medway, in Kent, South East England.

South East England

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One of the nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.

One of the nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.

Uffington White Horse, a prehistoric hill figure on the Berkshire Downs.
Harwell Science and Innovation Campus seen from the air in September 2015; the JANET academic computer network is headquartered there.
Terramycin, an early antibiotic developed by Pfizer in Kent, synthesised by American chemist Robert Burns Woodward, and led to the common antibiotic doxycycline.
South Foreland Lighthouse on Dover cliffs.
BritNed connects from the Isle of Grain in Medway to the TenneT network in the Netherlands.
England population density and low elevation coastal zones. South East England is particularly vulnerable to sea level rise
View of South East England coast from northern France.
The Litlington White Horse situated in the South Downs.
General Election results in 2017.
How the region voted in the 2016 European referendum; in the South East England region, only the Spelthorne district in Surrey strongly wanted to leave the EU; propensity for the EU followed the M3 and M4 corridors, western Oxfordshire and central parts of Sussex, including Brighton and Hove.
Reading School often gets the highest percentage of Oxbridge acceptances for a state school in England.
Tom Tower of Christ Church, Oxford; in 1920, the University of Oxford was the first in the UK to award degrees to women.
Redhill with the diesel Class 166 service run by First Great Western to Reading as the line has not got the Third rail electrification fully installed on the North Downs Line
Most main routes in the region are radials from London. Shown here is the A21. It is one of the major north–south routes connecting London and commuter towns and the coast
Vodafone HQ north of Newbury; it arrived as Racal-Vodafone in 1983, when Bayer also arrived; Vodafone is the world's second-biggest mobile phone company (the world's largest privately owned) with £40 billion of revenue and 464 million customers, and profits of £11bn; it has around 19M UK customers, and by value makes up about 5% of the FTSE 100.
Horlicks factory in Slough; GSK Slough makes 14,000 tonnes a year.
Jealott's Hill Research Station (pesticides), former ICI Plant Protection Division.
Sheilas' Wheels outside the head office of esure in Reigate; esure was started by Peter Wood.
Esso UK is based in Leatherhead; Esso have around 1,100 petrol stations in the UK - 14% of all stations, and pays around £7bn in UK tax, and own the Brent oil field; the site is also the worldwide base of ExxonMobil Aviation Fuels and Marine.
Martin-Baker Mk 9 ejection seat; Martin-Baker seats have saved around 950 RAF pilots, and around 7600 pilots around the world, and were developed by Sir James Martin (1893–1981) from Northern Ireland.
Argos head office on Avebury Boulevard in Milton Keynes; Argos was established in 1973 from what was the Green Shield Stamps company and shops, and since 2016 has been owned by Sainsbury's, formerly Home Retail Group.
The OU at Milton Keynes.
HQ of Draper Tools.
Ordnance Survey headquarters at Adanac Park.
National Air Traffic Service headquarters at Swanwick.
The AA's headquarters at Fanum House in Basingstoke.
Virgin Atlantic on Manor Royal in Crawley; Virgin has 12 747s compared to BA's 56, but both have around 18 of the new Airbus 380; Gatwick now flies 40 million passengers a year, a world record for a single-runway airport.
Around 1,000 Minis are made each day in Cowley; BMW bought the plant in 1994 and has made around 3m since 2001; there are 4,500 staff and around ten miles of conveyors; the engines are made at Hams Hall in North Warwickshire.
Williams F1 at Grove, next to the Great Western Main Line and A338, north of Wantage.
BBC Research was based until 2010 in Kingswood Warren near Reigate in Surrey on the A217, which was responsible for developing stereo and HD TV broadcasts and teletext.
Michael Whyte on Highpark Lad at the British Jumping Derby at Hickstead in June 2011.
The Bat & Ball Inn, Clanfield, the birthplace of cricket.

Bracknell Forest U.A., Brighton & Hove U.A., Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Medway U.A., Milton Keynes U.A., Oxfordshire, Portsmouth U.A., Reading U.A., Slough U.A., Southampton U.A., Surrey, Windsor and Maidenhead U.A., Wokingham U.A. and West Sussex.

Arethusa Venture Centre, with figure-head, Lower Upnor.

Upnor

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Arethusa Venture Centre, with figure-head, Lower Upnor.
The Older London Stone standing in front of the fence of the Arethusa Venture Centre.
A Thames Barge sails past the depot: Upnor Castle (left), 'B' Magazine (centre), No. 5 Shell Store (right).
RE assault boat training at Upper Upnor
Former 'B' Magazine (1857) undergoing refurbishment.
Former Dry Guncotton Store (right, 1895)
Left to right: former No 3 Shell Store (1883), Mine Testing Room (1905) and Wet Guncotton Store (1895)
Left to right: Main entrance, former Filled Mine Store (1904), former Filled Shell Store (1904)

Lower Upnor and Upper Upnor are two small villages in Medway, Kent, England.