Thames and Medway Canal
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The Thames and Medway Canal is a disused canal in Kent, south east England, also known as the Gravesend and Rochester Canal. It was originally some 11 km long and cut across the neck of the Hoo penins
From the Strood basin (centre right), the canal disappeared almost immediately into the tunnel
The Higham portal to the straight tunnel
The passing place- now used by the railway
Thames and Medway canal in overgrown state, with railway line adjacent
Higham, Kent
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Higham is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the borough of Gravesham in Kent, England. The village lies south-east of Gravesend and just north-west of Strood, in Medway. The civil parish h
Thames and Medway Canal
…57,433. From the Gravesend basin, the canal began with a straight section aligned with New Tavern Fort, Gravesend. By 1801 it ran 4 miles (6.4 km) to Higham. A new engineer, Ralph Walker, arrived and announced that the whole canal would cost significantly more than the revised estimate. Work halted, and by…
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