Medway
Unitary Authority
Dockyard joins world at-risk list...the World Monuments Fund (WMF) list for 2010. The formal naval site at the mouth of the Thames and Medway rivers includes Grade I and Grade II listed buildings and ancient scheduled monuments. WMF has added 93 sites to its at-risk list,... In this article: Samuel Pepys, Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, SAVE Britain's Heritage, Napoleonic Wars, World War II, and Royal Navy |
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Scotland on Sunday | June 05, 2009
Pilot rapped after 'fruitless' search
...route spoke to air traffic while crossing over Southend. He was told to cross over the Thames and Medway, but must tell us when he got to the south side and that's what he didn't do. "That puts us in a situation where we have a missing...
In this article: Thames, RAF Kinloss, Cambridge, All rights reserved, Sea King helicopter, and RAF
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Guardian | November 13, 2009
No to Boris's estuary airport Rodney Chambers
...to do the government's bidding. It is for this reason that Medway council and its partners need to push the alternative to a Thames estuary airport, which is to make better use of our existing airports. Birmingham, for example, has...
In this article: Boris Johnson, London, Birmingham, Thames, Sunday Times, and UK
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Wikipedia | October 13, 2009
Charles Fox (civil and railway engineer)
...Western Railway. Railways upon which Fox worked included the Cork and Bandon , Thames and Medway , Portadown and Dungannon , East Kent , Lyons and Geneva , Macon and Geneva , Wiesbaden and the Zealand (Denmark) lines. Fox was also engineer...
In this article: Francis Fox, Sir Charles Fox, Derby, Thames, London and Birmingham Railway, and Joseph Paxton
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sciencedaily | June 20, 2009
Deadly Parasite Could Endanger Salmon And Trout Populations In U.K.
...enclosed lakes and sites connected to the river network. Catchments at risk from invasion include the Kent, Yorkshire Ouse, Trent, Thames, Medway, Itchen, Test and Severn. "The new parasite has also been shown to affect other UK...
In this article: UK, Brown trout, Atlantic salmon, Bournemouth University, Europe, Patagonia, and US
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Kent
...boundary with Essex in the middle of the River Thames estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of Medway. Kent has a nominal border with France halfway through the Channel...
In this article: BBC Radio Kent, Diocese of Canterbury, River Medway, London, Coal, Rochester, Dover, Dartford, and United Kingdom
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HMS Eskimo (F75)
...she operated in the Far East. HMS Eskimo was reduced to an accommodation and headquarters ship for minesweepers, wreck-disposal vessels, and salvage craft clearing the Thames and Medway estuaries in 1946. She was used as a target ship in...
In this article: HMS Eskimo, Second Battle of Narvik, HMCS Haida, Czech Air Force, Plymouth, Thames, English Channel, and North Africa
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High Halstow
...Street. The 10th-century church of St Margaret at High Halstow was referred to in the Domesday Book of 1086, and was built on the highest point of the Hoo Peninsula, overlooking the rivers of the Thames and Medway . In the 18th...
In this article: Isle of Grain, Malaria, Marsh harrier, and Little Egret
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Thames sailing barge
...in Our Mutual Friend. On his death in 1881, Dodd left GBP5000 for future match prizes. The Thames and Medway barge matches were discontinued in 1963. In the matches that year, the Spinaway C (skippered by "Moggles" Morgan) won the Thames...
In this article: River Thames and London
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Catuvellauni
...Caratacus led the initial resistance to the invasion in Kent. They were defeated by Plautius in two crucial battles on the rivers Medway (see Battle of the Medway) and Thames . He also tells us that the Bodunni, a tribe or kingdom who were...
In this article: Caratacus, Dio Cassius, Julius Caesar, Verlamion, Rome, Britain, and Verulamium
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Medway is a conurbation and unitary authority in South East England. The Unitary Authority was formed in 1998 when the City of Rochester-upon-Medway amalgamated with Gillingham Borough Council to form Medway Council, a unitary authority independent of Kent County Council, though still within the ceremonial county of Kent.
It was colloquially known as The Medway Towns, however the city, villages and towns at the mouth of the River Medway have gradually merged. Over half of the unitary authority area is parished and rural in nature. Because of its strategic location by the major crossing of the River Medway, it has made a wide and historically significant contribution to Kent, and to England dating back thousands of years, as evident in the siting of Watling Street by the Romans and by the Norman Rochester Castle, Rochester Cathedral (the second oldest in Britain), and the Chatham naval dockyard and its associated defences.
Medway includes parts of the North Kent Marshes, an environmentally significant wetlands region with several Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). Other similar areas of conservation include Ranscombe Farm on chalk grassland and woodland between Strood and Cuxton, with rare woodland flowers and orchids.
Medway is one of the boroughs included in the Thames Gateway development scheme.
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