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	Thames and Medway Canal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Thames and Medway Canal is a now-disused (Long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation) canal in the south east of (A division of the United Kingdom) England, in (A county in southeastern England on the English Channel; the first to be colonized by the Romans) Kent.
		The section of the canal from Gravesend to (Click link for more info and facts about Higham) Higham is now in the hands of the Thames & Medway Canal Association.
		The canal basin at Gravesend is as of October 2004 being dredged, and the lock gates into the river are to be renovated.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thames_and_medway_canal.htm (192 words)

	Hoo Peninsula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hoo Peninsula is a peninsula in England separating the estuaries of the rivers Thames and Medway.
		The Thames Estuary area covers the 15 miles (24 km) from Gravesend to the Isle of Grain; the Medway area 15 miles (24 km) from Rochester to the Isle of Grain: a total of 38 square miles (98 km²) of marshlands.Both are considered as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Protected Areas (SPA).
		The Rivers Thames and Medway were joined by the eight-mile long Thames and Medway Canal, the construction of which started in 1805.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hoo_Peninsula (3178 words)

	Encyclopedia: Canal
		Irrigation canals are man-made waterways for the delivery of water and preceded the use of transportation canals used by barges or narrowboats on smaller canals, and by ships on ship canals that connect to the ocean.
		Canal du Midi, Toulouse The Canal du Midi is a 240km long canal in southern France, le midi, linking the Garonne River to the Mediterranean Sea, between Toulouse and the Mediterranean port of SÃ¨te, which was created for the canal.
		Canals are so deeply identified with Venice that many cities that have canals used as waterways have been called "the Venice of..." Download high resolution version (602x884, 154 KB)A canal in the centre of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Author: me, Paul Vlaar Date: 2002-06-01 Source: http://www.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Canal (1901 words)

	Canal History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The canal between Gravesend and Higham remained in use until 1934 when it was formally abandoned.
		The Thames and Medway Canal Association has carried out a considerable amount of clearance work on the canal since its formation in 1976.
		The canal towpath is an important link in Route 1 of the Network which runs between Inverness and Dover.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /john.epton/tmca/canal_history.htm (461 words)

	IWA - Library - Press Releases 2004 - IWA Announces Grant for Thames and Medway Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The expected benefits of restoring the canal include increased land values due to the attractiveness of waterside properties and the availability of the canal for adjacent commercial development.
		John Epton, chairman of the Thames and Medway Canal Association, which was founded in 1976 to campaign for the restoration of the canal as a multi-purpose recreation amenity, said, “We are delighted to receive this grant from The Inland Waterways Association - it is a significant contribution towards the total cost.
		Restoration proposals plan for the canal to be 13 metres wide at the surface, and capable of carrying the sailing barges for which the canal was originally constructed.
	www.waterways.org.uk /library/press_releases/2004/thames.htm (703 words)

	Articles - Canals of the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Canals first saw use during the Roman occupation of Great Britain, and were used mainly for irrigation.
		Canal boats proved more than adequate for this task, and so canals were constructed between industries, and between cities and ports, with vast amounts of materials from manufactured goods to coal and lumber being transported.
		However, in the latter half of the 20th century the canals saw a rise in popularity through their use by holidaymakers, who often rented a 'narrowboat' and roamed the canals visiting places they passed through.
	www.foreverd.com /articles/Canals_of_the_United_Kingdom (679 words)

	History by Waterway from Trent and Mersey Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Surveyed the Tees and proposed a canal from Stockton to Darlington and Staindrop to Winton with branches to the River Wear near Durham and the River Ure at Boroughbridge.
		He surveyed the canal again and recommended that much of the line proposed by the Act should be abandoned in favour of a route with a long tunnel further west which would "be attended with much advantage in point of saving considerable Expence, and upwards of one Mile and one quarter less in length".
		He met with the canal shareholders to discuss the possible conversion of the canal to a railway at the cost of £120,000.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/History25.html (3004 words)

	Stourbridge Extension Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A 7 mile barge canal with entrance locks and basins from Gravesend, on the Thames, to Strood, on the Medway.
		Thames and Medway Canal Association : Halting the deterioration of the canal and promoting its use as a multipurpose amenity.
		Was a 4 mile tub-boat canal from Tavistock, Devon, to the quay on the River Tamar.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Stourbridge-Extension-Canal.html (709 words)

	Thame - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Thame
		It is situated on the River Thame, which has its source in the Chiltern Hills and flows past Thame to the River Thames, which it joins near Dorchester; it is 56 km/35 mi long.
		Thame has a large Gothic (Early English and Perpendicular) church of St Mary the Virgin which contains a 14th-century screen.
		At the thame time,' said Sleary, 'I mutht put in my word, Thquire, tho that both thides of the banner may be equally theen.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Thame (230 words)

	Gravesend,_Kent
		In command of the Royal Engineers from 1865-71, he was responsible for the forts that guard the Thames downstream from Gravesend, New Tavern Fort in the town, Shornemead Fort on the south bank, and Coalhouse Fort on the north.
		The Thames and Medway Canal was opened for barge traffic in the year 1824; by 1846 it had proved too difficult a route for navigation between the Thames and Medway and was left to silt up until the tunnel was rescued to provide a route for the railway.
		The reasons for this change of use generally because the canal had suffered from the problems caused by the differing tides between the two rivers to such an extent that a steam engine had to be used often in pumping water into the Higham tunnel to compensate for low tides.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Gravesend,_Kent (2158 words)

	Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		In this manner, inspired by the Dutch, was English yachting born on the banks of the Medway.
	www.btinternet.com /~kentnet/sailkent/magazine.html (1752 words)

	The Exception To The Rule
		The canal in question was the "Thames and Medway" that was built between Gravesend on the River Thames and Frindsbury on the River Medway, and in doing so crossed the Hoo Peninsula in Kent.
		The canal was originally built to avoid the predatory raids of French warships during the Napoleonic Wars (1796-1815), but finally opened in 1824.
		Given the design of the Thames sailing barge, this was no problem as it was a design feature - normally used when they had to pass under low bridges of the Medway in the Rochester area, and on the Upper Thames.
	www.thamesmatch.co.uk /TMCA_intro.htm (852 words)

	Higham Village History Group - St Mary's Church
		Bore holes sunk throughout the marshes indicate that the Thames flowed right up to nearby Cliffe and Cooling, while around Higham itself there were probably timber cause- ways carrying traffic to a ferry and possibly a wharf.
		Later they were in dispute with the town of Gravesend over the rights to ferry people and goods across the Thames, whatever the outcome of this disagreement, the service was still operating in 1474, when the Prioress hired a replacement boat from Rochester.
		The 1824 Thames and Medway Canal, which can be followed from its basin at Gravesend right up to the railway station at Higham, was a good plan which just never seemed to come right.
	www.highamvillagehistory.org.uk /StMarys.html (2890 words)

	Thames Match Home Page
		The Thames Match is recognised by the Sailing Barge Association (SBA) as a venue for barges to be awarded points based on their racing performance.
		The Thames Match takes place annually and provides the opportunity for those Thames barges that are still in a seaworthy condition [as the result of the continuing efforts of their owners] to compete in the lower River Thames for a series of historically prestigious prizes.
		'The Thames Estuary sea-scape is one of horizontals: bars of dun green, grey, ochre, distant ragged breakers, cloud-shadow and the white dazzle of wet sand.
	www.thamesmatch.co.uk (1379 words)

	KENT - Online Information article about KENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The London Clay occupies the tongue of land between the estuaries of the Thames and Medway, as well as Sheppey and a district about 8 m.
		remainder of the estuary of the Thames, but at several places it is broken through by outcrops of chalk, which in some instances run northwards to the banks of the river.
		The valley of the Medway, especially the district round Maidstone, is the most fertile part of the county, the soil being a deep loam with a subsoil of See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /JUN_KHA/KENT.html (4821 words)

	Barge News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Cotswold Canals society has released the results of its investigation into the gauge of the Thames and Severn canal, which is now being restored.
		It has concluded that the gauge beam of the canal is approximately 3.7 m, instead of the 3.8 m which had been assumed for many years.
		Countryside Plc, which plans to undertake the redevelopment of land surround the basin at the Thames end of the Thames and Medway canal, has agreed with Gravesham Council to repair the basin and reopen it as moorings.
	www.barges.org /bargenews (2796 words)

	Rochester- Geography, History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Medway is a unitary council in North Kent.
		It covers almost all of the Medway Towns north of the M2 motorway, an urban area with a population of approximately 250 000.
		By 500 BC Kent was on a major axis of immigration- a trackway crossed the Medway at Halling.
	www.rutter.uklinux.net /_location/rumcc.htm (1785 words)

	Ramblers Association - Information - Path - Thames Path
		A path along the Thames was among the original list of long distance routes proposed by the Hobhouse Committee in 1948 and was subsequently keenly supported by the Ramblers' Association, who published David Sharp's first guide to the route in 1981.
		Thames Head is a short walk from Kemble station, with rail services to London, Reading, Swindon, Cheltenham and Gloucester and connections for Bristol, south Wales and many other parts of the country.
		The Thames Barrier is a short walk from Charlton station, with Connex trains to Greenwich, London Bridge, Charing Cross, Cannon Street, Dartford and the Medway Towns, with connections for other parts of Kent.
	www.ramblers.org.uk /info/paths/thames.html (1684 words)

	The Inland Waterways Association - Waterway Societies - T (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Association promotes the maintenance and eventual restoration of the Thames and Medway Canal, which opened in 1824 and ran originally from Gravesend to Strood.
		Plans to regenerate the Canal Basin and partly re-open the Canal are being considered.
		TAG was formed in 1987 to highlight the lack of continuous towpath access on the Rochdale Canal in particular, and to draw attention to the value of informal towpath usage for canals under restoration.
	www.waterways.org.uk /watsoc/watsocT.htm (361 words)

	Higham Village History Group - Jan 04 Talk
		A very interesting and informative talk was given by Brian MacKnish, on the Thames and Medway Canal and the Association, which was formed in 1976.
		There have been various Canal projects around the UK recently -The Falkirk Wheel, Anderton Boat Lift etc. The TandM Canal is right for restoration and from Gravesend Basin – Mark Lane, Denton is suitable for boat use.
		The Basin is a 200 yr old structure with a bridge by a canal lock, the proposed Development is not agreed as yet but TMCA would like it made into a water feature and the canal to be 48 ft wide by railway line.
	www.highamvillagehistory.org.uk /Jan04mtg.html (695 words)

	Societies and restoration
		Formed in 1963 as the Association for the Restoration of the Lancaster Canal, the Trust - as it soon came to be known - had the prime objective to restore and reopen to navigation the disused section of the canal from Tewitfield, just north of Carnforth, to Kendal.
		The society was formed in 1987 with the aims of preserving the line of the canal, the immediate restoration for multi-purpose recreation of all parts of the canal which remain in water, the eventual restoration of the whole canal to full navigable standard and to foster interest in the canal.
		The Worcester & Birmingham Canal Society was formed in 1969 to promote the restoration, conservation and improvement of the Worcester & Birmingham Canal and adjacent waterways for the use and benefit of the public.
	www.thewaterweb.net /Waterweb/Restoration.htm (2291 words)

	Frindsbury Cement Works
		In the South, there are two great cement producing areas, along both banks of the Thames estuary and the River Medway, and it is on the latter that the Frindsbury complex of works was established.
		The area consisted of an inverted delta of chalk hills, highest at the base and falling off to mud flats and saltings on the two sides where it is bounded by the River Medway.
		The first sign of industry in the area was the construction of the Thames-Medway canal, the tunnel of which the North Kent Railway later utilised to reach Strood Station in 1849.
	www.irsociety.co.uk /Archives/16/Frindsbury.htm (3653 words)

	No sub category
		The Stover Canal Society is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of an eighteenth century canal used in the transportation of ball clay and granite from Dartmoor.
		The Thames and Medway Canal Association is a voluntary body trying to restore the derelict canal running between Gravesend and Higham, Kent, UK.
		The River Thames Society is a not-for-profit organisation for people who care about the river Thames.
	www.narrowboat-holidays.org.uk /canal-societies-no-sub-category.htm (460 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Thames and Medway Canal Association was formed in 1976 to halt the deterioration of the canal and its environs and promote its use as a multipurpose amenity.
		The canal could eventually provide a sheltered, safe water space where young and old could gain experience in small boats and canoes.
		Why not check out the Thames Sailing Barge Yearbook 2005 where you can read about the Sailing Barges that used to use the Canal when it was first built.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /john.epton/tmca (197 words)

	The Village of Higham
		The canal was abandoned and the tunnel used for the railway instead.
		The railway tunnel between Higham and Frindsbury, two and a quarter miles long, was designed for the Thames and Medway canal by William Tierney Clark, who also built an iron bridge over the Danube at Budapest.
		But the canal was not a financial success and the line was adopted by the Gravesend and Rochester Railway, which later became part of the South Eastern Railway network.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /johnno/high.htm (632 words)

	Charles Dickens Gad's Hill Place - Charles Dickens and Henry Dodd
		This article, used with permission from the Thames Sailing Barge Yearbook 2004, proves the point.
		Charles Dickens is associated with the Thames Match in various ways, although this escapes mention in the standard works of Dickensian literary analysis and criticism.
		Dickens' character is located somewhere between the Thames and the Chatham Dockyard and is describing the spritsail Stump rigged sailing barges used for transporting hay up-river to London's horse population.
	www.perryweb.com /Dickens/work_dodd.shtml (924 words)

	garden of england cycle route
		The route reaches the Thames Medway Canal, passes Tilbury Ferry leading to routes north of the river and on through Swanscombe and Greenhithe.
		At Dartford, the route follows the river into London, past the Thames Barrier, the worlds largest moveable flood barrier, and enters Greenwich on traffic-free routes alongside the Thames, ending under the bow of the Cutty Sark.
		There is the opportunity to venture west of Dover and link up with the Downs and Weald Route, offering the possibility of combining the Downs and Weald with the Garden of England to complete a round trip from London for a 239 mile journey.
	www.cycle-n-sleep.co.uk /rinfo/garden.htm (360 words)

	Kent Biodiversity Action Plan - View Priority Habitat
		The Standing Open Water HAP includes lakes, meres and pools, as well as man-made waters such as reservoirs, canals, ponds, gravel pits and ditches with open water for at least the majority of the year.
		Lakes are concentrated along the river valleys of the Darent, Medway, Stour and at Dungeness, mainly as a legacy of mineral exploitation.
		There are two canals; the Royal Military Canal and the Thames and Medway Canal at Higham.
	www.kentbap.org.uk /habitats/view?hap=145 (920 words)

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