Medway is borough and unitary authority area in Kent, South East England. It had a population of 278,016 in 2019. The unitary authority was formed in 1998, when the boroughs of Rochester-upon-Medway and Gillingham were merged to form Medway Towns. The borough is governed by Medway Council, a unitary authority which is independent of Kent County Council, but remains part of the ceremonial county of Kent.
Image: Rochester Cathedral (Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary) (42417936634)
Image: Submarine Ocelot, Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent geograph.org.uk 2577101
Image: The covered slips at Chatham dockyard, seen from Lower Upnor geograph.org.uk 3079732
Image: Rochester zamek fc 11
Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe. It borders Essex across the entire estuary of the River Thames to the north; the French department of Pas-de-Calais across the Strait of Dover to the south-east; East Sussex to the south-west; Surrey to the west and Greater London to the north-west. The county town is Maidstone.
Image: White Cliffs of Dover, Kent
Image: Saint Thomas Becket (Samuel Caldwell, 1919) crop
An early mention of Kent in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle between 11th and 12th centuries
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
