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	Chatham, city, England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
		Chatham, Rochester, and Gillingham form a contiguous urban area known as the Medway Towns.
		Chatham is a major naval station, with well-equipped dockyards, dry docks, and shipbuilding and repairing equipment.
		65,035), Kent, SE England, on the Medway River.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ch/ChathmEng.html

	AIF 3.4 Thames Gateway Kent Partnership
		However, the developments proposed for the east side of the Medway - Chatham Maritime, Rochester Riverside and the redevelopment of Chatham City Centre - will all require the 11kV network to be extended back to Chatham Hill.
		Turning to the Medway area, there is a need for a major upgrading of the primary sub-station at Chatham Hill that will be carried out by Seeboard.
		Medway already has a significant presence of knowledge intensive activities but there is very considerable scope to build on this by exploiting the potential of the FE/HE presence and by attracting further inward investment.
	www.thamesgateway-kent.org.uk /aif/3.htm?pageid=3_4

	Medway Council - SeaMedway
		Medway is immersed in maritime history with The Historic Dockyard Chatham, one of the world’s most important maritime and heritage locations displaying more 400 years of spectacular architecture and exciting naval and maritime exhibits.
		To celebrate Medway’s history, the Dockyard has created a permanent new gallery to commemorate Chatham’s role in shipbuilding and supporting the Royal Navy in the campaigns leading up to and including the Battle of Trafalgar.
		The River Medway is recognised as one of Britain’s most important waters for leisure activities and has a fascinating heritage that stretches back more than 2,000 years from its beginnings as a river crossing for the Romans.
	www.medway.gov.uk /print/index/leisure/tourism/seamedway.htm (321 words)

	Welcome by Professor A N Baxter
		The magnificent River Medway eddies and sweeps beneath the bridge linking Strood with Rochester, curves down river past Chatham and the towering covered slips of the former Royal Naval Dockyard (now The Historic Dockyard Chatham), then onwards past Gillingham towards the esturial marshlands and the sea.
		Historically and affectionately the four towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham have for generations been known as the Medway Towns.
		Not only is it located on the banks of the 'Kentish' river (the Saxons called the Medway 'Medweg', because the river provides a 'med' or middle 'weg' or way through the county of Kent), it is on the Roman 'Watling Street' running from Dover through Canterbury and Rochester, to London, north to Chester and beyond.
	www.gre.ac.uk /schools/nri/earth/prospect_stud/medway.htm (152 words)

	A Great Day Out - Historic Dockyard, Chatham > Home > EVENTS
		He joined the Royal Navy in Chatham in 1771 and spent the formative years of his naval career at Chatham and at Sheerness on the River Medway.
		Nelson joined his first ship at the Royal Dockyard Chatham and many buildings he would have known are still standing in The Historic Dockyard today.
		Her keel was laid down in 1759 in the single dock on the site of the dock which is now home to HMS Cavalier, and launched into the River Medway in 1765.
	www.chdt.org.uk /NetsiteCMS.php?pageid=11 (454 words)

	Building the CTRL
		Contract 330 extends from the northwest side of the River Medway Crossing to the existing Railtrack London to Chatham line at Fawkham Junction.
		It includes the construction of a 1.3km viaduct across the River Medway and the Maidstone to Strood Railway, together with a bridge over the London and Chatham Railway, both to carry the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
		Running to the south of the M2 motorway, the alignment of the railway approximately follows, the motorway and the A2 from the River Medway to Southfleet.
	www.ctrl.co.uk /english/building/route1.htm (454 words)

	Medway Council - Bus services
		Universities at Medway/ Chatham Maritime - Gillingham - Twydall
		Chatham – Chatham Historic Dockyard - Gillingham - Medway Maritime Hospital - Rainham - Upchurch - Lower Halstow - Newington – Sittingbourne
		Medway Maritime Hospital - Gillingham - Lower Rainham - Rainham – Twydall – Rainham Mark Tescos – Rainham – Farthing Corner - Parkwood - Wigmore – Hempstead Valley - Bredhurst - Boxley – Maidstone
	www.medway.gov.uk /index/environment/publictransport/buses/11300.html (454 words)

	links to other sites supplied by Nickys Nursery
		Brief introduction to the Medway Towns of Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham in Kent.
		Medway Villages.....Kent's Medway Village information pages, Allhallows, Stoke, St Mary Hoo.
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	www.nickys-nursery.co.uk /links.htm (454 words)

	Medway -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It comprises the ports of Chatham and Gillingham and the town of Rainham south of the Medway and the historic cathedral city of Rochester north of the Medway.
		Chatham is continuous with the communities of Rochester (west) and Gillingham and New Brompton (east), known as the Medway towns, for which...
		"Medway." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9063961 (454 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Pett, Peter (Commissioner of the Navy)
		Peter Pett succeed his father, Phineas Pett, as Commissioner of the Navy at Chatham, in 1647; he was continued in his office after the Restoration, but in 1667, in consequence of the Dutch attack upon Chatham, he was superseded, sent to the Tower, and threatened with impeachment.
		One of the charges levelled against him was that he had wasted time in removing model ships from Chatham during the attack, the implication being that these were mere decorative trifles.
		Pett seems to have been made scapegoat for the disaster of the Dutch attack along the Medway.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/708.php (454 words)

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		E.H. Couchman collection of postcards, photographs, ephemera and manuscripts pertaining to the history of the Medway Towns (Rochester, Strood, Chatham and Brompton (later Gillingham)) and Gillingham, Rainham, Gravesend, Dickens� Country, the Lower Medway Valley and the Hoo Peninsula 1680-1993 [1994].
		Chatham roads E-R. [Caution should be exercised in relation to house numbering quoted in descriptions, as in many cases this was altered, usually in phases (Rochester (including Strood Intra) in 1881, 1894, 1895 and c.1953; Chatham 1901, c.1904, c.1905 and 1927).
		Cutting from Chatham News of 14 September 1990 comprising article entitled call to re-name [Borstal] marsh in tribute to its saviour: Peggy [Saxby] �s plea for a fitting epitaph for Baty on Robert Armorer Baty GM, naturalist and photograph of Baty, with accompanying biographical notes by Couchman.
	cityark.medway.gov.uk /cgi-bin/interface.cgi?Mode=Search&SearchWords=Australia (454 words)

	Historic Medway
		The Medway Towns consist of Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Strood, Rainham and various outlying villages on the Hoo Peninsular, including Grain.
		Chatham has been a military town from the time that Henry VIII decided that the ships of his navy should spend the winter moored in the River Medway.
		The Medway Union Workhouse (later All Saints's Hospital) stood in Magpie Hall Road, on what was then the outskirts of the town.
	www.rossfamily.plus.com /historicmedway (578 words)

	wiki/Medway Definition / wiki/Medway Research
		The Medway area has a long and varied history dominated originally by the city of Rochester and later by the naval and military establishments principally in Chatham.
		The Medway Towns have developed into an area of urban sprawl, situated near an environmentally significant wetlands region, and formed by the union of Chatham, Gillingham and Rochester in Kent, England.
		Medway applied for city status in the 2000 and 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Medway (578 words)

	Magazine
		HMS Bulwark, a 15,000 ton 12 year old battleship, was moored in Saltpan Reach, on the River Medway between Chatham and Sheerness, taking on coal.
		The Medway distinguishes between Kent people born east or west of the river; those born east of the Medway being known as the 'Men of Kent', whilst those born west of the river are 'Kentish Men'.
		In the 19th Century, Medway Week was the annual yachting regatta at which the gentry and their ladies dallied with yachts and yachting.
	www.btinternet.com /~kentnet/sailkent/magazine.html (1752 words)

	MarTV.com - PEuroM2P.html
		Chatham Docks, Medway Ports' 140-acre facility, is located eight miles from the mouth of the Medway, upriver from the port of Sheerness.
		Millbay docks is the principal ro-ro terminal in Plymouth and the south-west of England.
		The port of Malaga is situated in southern Spain with direct access to the Meditereanean Sea, approximately 50 nautical miles from the Straits of Gibraltar, in position 4º25'E 36º43'N. The port of Malaga is an important port for the import of crude oil and bulk ores as well as general cargoes.
	www.martv.com /PORTS/PEUROM2P.html (3681 words)

	Community Regeneration Awards Winners 2004 - Index
		Chatham Dockyard closed in 1984 resulting in the loss of more than 7,000 jobs and triggering significant economic hardship for the whole of the Medway Towns.
		Chatham Maritime has established an important model by bringing three universities and a further education college together into the "multiversity of Medway".
		The distinctiveness of the Chatham peninsula and the links between all site users generate an unusual sense that the community is the dockyard "and all who sail in her".
	www.bura.org.uk /awards/award2004/dpmwin_f_chatham.htm (553 words)

	Medway (Borough) - netlexikon
		Zum Gebiet von Medway gehören die Medway Towns, ein urbanisiertes Gebiet, das aus den beidseits des Flusses Medway liegenden Städten Chatham, Gillingham und Rochester in Kent entstanden ist.
		Die Medway genannte Gegend blickt auf eine lange und wechselvolle Geschichte; es wurde zunächst von Rochester beherrscht, später von den militärischen Einrichtungen in Chatham.
		Medway hat sich 2000 und 2002 darum vergeblich darum bemüht, den Status einer City zu erhalten.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Medway-%28Borough%29.html (216 words)

	the University of Greenwich
		The University of Greenwich at Medway is a major regional, national and international centre of research and consultancy expertise, offering high-tech research and science facilities.
		It is one of a number of shared facilities being created as part of the Universities at Medway initiative, a partnership led by the universities of Greenwich and Kent along with Christ Church Canterbury University College (CCCUC) and Mid-Kent College.
		On the outskirts of the towns are Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre and Medway Valley which includes a multiplex, nightclub, bars and restaurants.
	www.gre.ac.uk /about/campus/medway.htm (216 words)

	Chatham
		Chatham is the name of an English town that developed around an important naval dockyard on the east bank of the River Medway in the county of Kent.
		Together with Rochester and Gillingham[?] it is part of a conurbation called the Medway Towns, having a combined population of approximately 250,000.
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	www.termsdefined.net /ch/chatham.html (363 words)

	BBC NEWS UK England Kent Nelson flagship town marks battle
		Medway Council and Chatham's Historic Dockyard are promising "an explosion of colour and pageantry" in October 2005.
		HMS Victory was built in the Royal Dockyard at Chatham and launched into the River Medway in 1765.
		The naval commander also joined his first ship at Chatham Dockyard.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/3764798.stm (317 words)

	Historic Dockyard Chatham Celebrates Trafalgar Anniversary
		The Historic Dockyard Chatham will host the two-day Medway Maritime Festival (August 28-29) as part of SeaBritain 2005 which will include historic re-enactments of naval life and heritage, maritime displays and a celebration of music inspired by the sea.
		Two hundred years since Admiral Lord Nelson’s victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, the dockyard where his famous warship HMS Victory was launched in 1765 will be celebrating with a series of events marking the occasion in the Medway region of Kent.
		The area, 31 miles south-east of London, has a wealth of maritime history with both Chatham and Sheerness dockyards building ships for the Royal Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries.
	www.britainexpress.com /ticker/archives/00000418.htm (286 words)

	Kent County Council
		University of Greenwich at Medway - Chatham - Chatham Station -
		University of Greenwich at Medway - Gillingham - Sturdee Avenue - Twydall
		Folkestone - (Golden Valley 12A) - Hythe - Dymchurch - New Romney - Lydd on Sea -
	www.kentpublictransport.info /b001_050.htm (286 words)

	New Medway campus - Maps and directions - University of Kent
		The Medway campus is on the site of the former HMS Pembroke naval base in Chatham Maritime.
		Follow signs for Gillingham, then the Historic Dockyard and Chatham Maritime via the A289 and the Medway Tunnel.
		New Medway campus - Maps and directions - University of Kent
	www.kent.ac.uk /maps/ukm.html (437 words)

	whats_new_medway_quee.htm
		One option that was open to passengers was to join the Medway Queen at Herne Bay at approximately 1pm and sail to Southend where they had four hours ashore before rejoining the ship for the journey up to Chatham where they disembarked at Sun Pier.
		Labour MP Jonathan Shaw (Chatham and Aylesford) was successful in the ballot for an adjournment debate on the Medway Queen.
		Veteran Paddle Steamer Medway Queen, who at the moment is having her summer patch and paint, received a welcome gift of a sturdy 12ft boat which will be used to inspect and paint the hull.
	home.freeuk.net /lenknight/trialsite2/whats_new_medway_queen.htm (3356 words)

	Royal Navy
		Medway Division HMS President is the satellite unit co-located with Chatham Royal Marine Reserves within Brompton Barracks in Chatham
		The unit extends the footprint of HMS President into Medway Towns and North Kent. Medway Division has good training facilities for new entry and basic specialisation training.
		Anyone interested in joining should contact the OIC and a visit can be arranged for a Thursday evening drill night.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /rn/print.php?page=6561 (73 words)

	Community Regeneration Awards Winners 2004 - Index
		Chatham Dockyard closed in 1984 resulting in the loss of more than 7,000 jobs and triggering significant economic hardship for the whole of the Medway Towns.
		Chatham Maritime has established an important model by bringing three universities and a further education college together into the "multiversity of Medway".
		The distinctiveness of the Chatham peninsula and the links between all site users generate an unusual sense that the community is the dockyard "and all who sail in her".
	www.bura.org.uk /awards/award2004/dpmwin_f_chatham.htm (553 words)

	International Civic Heraldry-United Kingdom ROCHESTER UPON MEDWAY
		The three castles in the crest represent the three districts which have merged to make one, and the naval crown, refers to the nautical character of Medway; also it is a reminder of the crest of Chatham, which also emerged from naval crown.
		The head of the trident also features in the badge, where it is enclosed by three mural crowns, representing the three old authorities of Chatham, Rochester and Strood.
		The arms consist of the red cross on gold, taken from the old arms of Rochester, together with two cornucopias, symbols of plenty, from the arms of Strood.
	www.ngw.nl /int/gbr/r/rocheste.htm (553 words)

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