The River Medway is a river in

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. It rises in the High Weald,

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and flows through

Tonbridge Tonbridge ( ) (historic spelling ''Tunbridge'') is a market town in Kent, England, on the River Medway, north of Royal Tunbridge Wells, south west of Maidstone and south east of London. In the administrative borough of Tonbridge and Mall ...

Maidstone Maidstone is the largest Town status in the United Kingdom, town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town. Maidstone is historically important and lies east-south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town, l ...

and the

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conurbation in

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, before emptying into the

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near

Sheerness Sheerness () is a port town and civil parish beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 13,249, it is the second largest town on the island after the nearby ...

, a total distance of . About of the river lies in East Sussex, with the remainder being in Kent. The Medway has a

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of , the second largest in southern England after the

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. The map opposite shows only the major

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: a more detailed map shows the extensive network of smaller streams feeding into the main river. Those tributaries rise from points along the

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, the

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and Ashdown Forest.

Tributaries

The major tributaries are: * River Eden * River Bourne, known in the past as the Shode or Busty *

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, major sub-tributary River Bewl * River Beult *

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River Len The River Len is a river in Kent, England. It rises at a spring in ''Bluebell Woods'' to the southeast of the village centre of Lenham from the source of the River Great Stour; both rise on the Greensand Ridge. Its length is c. It enters the ...

Minor tributaries include: * Wateringbury Stream * East Malling Stream * River Grom Former minor tributaries include the Old Bourne River, which flowed through The Brook, Chatham (not to be confused with the main tributary River Bourne). The river and its tributaries flow through largely rural areas,

and

being the exceptions. The Medway itself initially flows in a west–east direction south of the

; at the confluence of the River Beult, however, it turns north and breaks through the North Downs at the Medway Gap, a steep and narrow valley near Rochester, before its final section to the sea. Until 1746, the river was not navigable above Maidstone. Below that point each village on the river had its

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or wharves: at Halling, Snodland, New Hythe and Aylesford. Cargoes included corn, fodder, fruit, stone and timber. In 1746, improvements to the channel meant that barges of could reach East Farleigh, Yalding and even Tonbridge. In 1828, the channel was further improved up to

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. There are eleven locks on the river. The lowest, opened in 1792, is at Allington, and is the tidal limit. The others are at East Farleigh,

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, Hampstead Lane, Stoneham Old Lock (disused), Sluice Weir Lock, Oak Weir Lock, East Lock, Porter's, Eldridge's and Town Lock in

. The locks will take craft up to by , and vessels with a

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of can navigate the river. The shallowest point is just below Sluice Weir Lock, which is prone to silting after heavy rain.The Medway navigation, Leaflet, March 1991, NRA-National Rivers Authority Small craft such as

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s can sometimes travel as far as

Penshurst Penshurst is a historic village and civil parishes in England, civil parish located in a valley upon the northern slopes of the Weald, Kentish Weald, at the confluence of the River Medway and the River Eden, Kent, River Eden, within the Seveno ...

. The stretch from

to Allington is known as the

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, and is in length. The

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is the navigation authority.

Estuary

Downstream of the Medway bridges (M2, HS1) the river comprises a sequence of tidal reaches: * Wickham Reach * Tower Reach * Bridge Reach * Limehouse Reach * Chatham Reach * Upnor Reach * Short Reach * Gillingham Reach * Pinup Reach * Long Reach * Kethole Reach * Saltpan Reach

Stangate Creek

One of the channels on the southern side of the estuary, Stangate Creek, is the subject of a painting by William Turner. In a location described as "opposite the

Isle of Grain Isle of Grain (Old English ''Greon'', meaning gravel) is a village and the easternmost point of the Hoo Peninsula within the unitary authority, district of Medway in Kent, south-east England. Once an island and now forming part of the peninsul ...

, Sharpfleet Creek, and the lower-end of the Hope", a

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site for ships was proclaimed on 16 September 1709, during an outbreak of the plague. The area had been leased to

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fisherman, so compensation was paid to them. Nearly 150 ships quarantined there in the first six months of 1712, and the site was again used between 1721 and 1743. In 1918 to 1920, damages were sought for damage done to an oyster fishery in Stangate Creek.

River crossings

Until recently the lowest public crossing of the Medway was at Rochester, where there has been a bridge since Roman times. In the 14th century the Wardens and Commonalty of Rochester Bridge were instituted by Sir John de Cobham to pay for the rebuilding and upkeep of the bridge. Until 1963 the nearest crossing to Rochester Bridge was the 14th-century bridge at Aylesford, upstream. Since then the following additional crossings have come into use: * 1963: A viaduct over the river was built south of Rochester to carry the first section of the M2 motorway. In 2003 this was widened to two separate spans. * Between 1963 and 1996 the M20 was built, with a bridge over the Medway south of Aylesford. * 1996: The Medway Tunnel became the river's lowest public crossing, connecting Gillingham to

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. The four-lane tunnel was constructed using the

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method, and was partially paid for by Rochester Bridge Trust, the successor to the Wardens and Commonalty. * 2003: A railway bridge long, with a central span of , was constructed for

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. The railway bridge lies parallel to the M2 motorway bridges. * 2017: A new road bridge from the A228 between Holborough and Halling across to Hall Road,

Wouldham Wouldham is a village on the bank of the River Medway in Kent, England. In 2011 its population was approximately 1500, which has increased since 2017, with substantial housing development to the south of the village. It has an 11th-century church ...

, to facilitate the development of Peters Village. A Class 377 unit crosses the River Medway between Leigh and Tonbridge 03

Three other major crossings are at Tonbridge, where bridges carry the

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and a rail link over the river; there is also a two-span viaduct which takes the A21 over the Medway Valley near Haysden. The lowest crossing of the Medway are two cable tunnels between the

and Chetney marshes. These were built between 1973 and 1976 in anticipation of the commissioning of Grain power station. The tunnels are 1700 m long, 2.54 m in diameter and between 34 and 47 m below ordnance datum; each carries a 400kV electricity circuit. There is no public access.

Flooding

The middle section of the Medway above Tonbridge, partly because of the various tributaries entering the river in this stretch – in particular the River Eden – has always been subject to extensive

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. Tonbridge has suffered frequent flooding over the centuries, so much so that the higher part of the town to the north is called "Dryhill". Flood protection measures have therefore been taken. In 1981, a flood barrier was constructed downstream from

to protect Tonbridge, which had been severely affected by the flooding of 1968. During periods of high flow, the flow is controlled by impounding the water and allowing up to of farmland upstream of the barrier to flood. However, this did not prevent significant flooding in Tonbridge in winter 2013–14. In recent years the village of Yalding, about 12 km downstream at the confluence with the River Beult, has been more prone to flooding than Tonbridge.

Footpaths

The Medway Valley Walk follows the river from Rochester to

along the bank most of the way above Allington. It starts on the Saxon Shore Way at Rochester. The North Downs Way crosses the river using the Medway Viaduct or motorway bridge. The Greensand Way crosses the river at Yalding. At West Peckham, it is joined by the Wealdway which continues through Tonbridge, thus linking with the Eden Valley Walk. Maidstone Millennium River Park is a walk from Teston Country Park to the Museum of Kent Life at Sandling. The park, built between 1998 and 2001, has transformed of wasteland and three new footbridges have been built over the river.

History

Ancient sites abound throughout the length of the River Medway. The area around Aylesford is a notable

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site where the Medway megaliths are a group of

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s including the Coldrum Stones and Kit's Coty House.

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ornaments and beakers have been found along the river; other burial sites and finds come from the pre-Roman

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. The Romans left evidence of many villas in the lower Medway Valley; later Jutish burial sites have also been found. The

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records many manors in the Medway valley. Castles became a feature of the landscape, including Rochester, Allington,

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(near Maidstone), and West Malling. Two military actions are named after the river: the

Battle of the Medway The Battle of the Medway took place in 43 AD, probably on the River Medway in the lands of the Iron Age tribe of the Cantiaci, now the English county of Kent. Other locations for the battle have been suggested but are less likely. This was ...

(43 CE, during the Roman invasion of Britain); and the

Raid on the Medway The Raid on the Medway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English warships laid up in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent. At th ...

, in 1667 during the

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. In the 18th century Samuel Ireland published an illustrated book about a journey up the river, to the River Bewl at Bayham Abbey. The book's map shows some of the tributaries (unnamed). The illustrations include the castles at Queenborough,

Upnor Lower Upnor and Upper Upnor are two small villages in Medway, Kent, England. They are in the parish of Frindsbury Extra on the western bank of the River Medway. Today the two villages are mainly residential and a centre for small craft moored ...

Leybourne Leybourne is a village and civil parish in Kent, England situated off Junction 4 of the M20 motorway, M20 Motorway. Leybourne is adjacent to New Hythe, East Malling and Larkfield, Larkfield and West Malling. As of 2020, Leybourne Parish had a po ...

and Hever; Penshurst Place; and the bridges at

, Aylesford, East Farleigh, Barming, Branbridges and Tonbridge. The hop fields in the vicinity of the latter are also described; and the easterly

, which then supplied Maidstone with its piped water. The book states that ''Within about two miles of Tunbridge the Medway branches out into several small streams, five of which unite at the town ... having each its stone bridge''. StroodWharfPierFrChurchWide

The Thames and Medway Canal, duplicatively linking the estuary at Strood to

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for adverse tides and weather was completed in 1824 but was not a commercial success; by 1849 the South Eastern Railway had taken over its tunnel through a hillside. The western part of the canal remained in use until 1934. The Hartlake disaster of 1853 saw the deaths of 30 hop-pickers when a wagon carrying them crashed through the side of a rotten wooden bridge at

Golden Green Golden Green is a village in the Medway valley near Tonbridge in Kent, England. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) from the larger village of Hadlow (of which it is part of the civil parish) and from the town of Tonbridge. Location Golden Green h ...

near Hadlow, throwing its passengers into the flood-swollen river. In 1914 HMS ''Bulwark'' exploded while moored at Kethole Reach near Sheerness, killing 741 men with only 12 survivors. The following year exploded in Saltpan Reach with the loss of 352 lives. In 1942 the world's first test of a submarine oil pipeline was conducted with one laid across the Medway in

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Culture

The Medway's 'marriage' to the

is given extensive treatment by

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's ''

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'' in the 16th century (Book IV, Canto xi).

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describes the view up the Medway from the

in ''The Mirror of the Sea'' (1906). For the 1999 film '' The Mummy'' the river was filmed at

Chatham Dockyard Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham, Kent, Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham, Kent, Gillingham; at its most extens ...

, in an imitation of a "port at

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". The scene is brief but involves the main protagonists departing on their mission to the city of the dead. The Maidstone River Festival, to celebrate the River Medway, running annually since 1980, is held on the last Saturday of July. It features events on and around the river and attracts thousands to Kent's county town. The festival was cancelled in 2012 due to the London Olympics, but returned in 2013. However, the 2013 event did not include a funfair or a fireworks display as in previous years, and lasted just one day instead of two. ''Medway Flows Softly'' is a song by local man George Gilbert; it was written in the mid-1960s and is often played in local folk clubs and at festivals in Kent. The River Medway is featured at Maidstone in the studio backdrop of the ITV1 regional news programme '' Meridian Tonight''. At 7.15 p.m. on 1 May each year, local

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rs Kettle Bridge Clogs dance across Barming Bridge (otherwise known as the Kettle Bridge) to mark the start of their Morris dancing season. Recreationally the river is used by many. For example, individuals and many clubs have paddling trips along many different parts of the Medway (e.g. Bewl Canoe Club). Individuals and club members paddling on the Medway and most other rivers should be members of British Canoeing.

"Kentish Men" and "Men of Kent"

The Medway is said to divide the county of

into two parts: this may allude to the two

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into which Kent has been divided since the year 604: Canterbury and Rochester. The tradition has grown up, and is kept alive by the "Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men", that those born in West Kent – the area north of the river, but including Maidstone, Gillingham (other than Rainham), Rochester and Chatham – are labelled ''

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'' (or ''Maids''); while those born in East Kent are ''Men'' (or ''Maids'') ''of Kent''. This labelling applies equally to those born in those parts of the traditional county absorbed into London since the 1880s.

Watermills

The power of the Medway has been harnessed for a millennium or more. Waterwheels and turbines powered by the waters of the Medway and its tributaries have been used to mill corn, make paper, make cloth, smelt iron, pump water and generate electricity. There are over 200 sites on the Medway where such usage is known. Today, only one mill is working for a commercial trade. See Medway watermills, and Medway watermills on the upper tributaries, the middle tributaries and the lower tributaries for more details.

Gallery

Medway scenes: File:TonbridgeSEMLBridge0053.JPG, The Medway flows through

in many channels. The South Eastern Main Line crosses the Medway. File:TonbridgeBotanyStr0038.JPG, The Botany stream forms another channel in

. File:TonbridgeCastle0031.JPG, Tonbridge Castle, a

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castle from 1066. File:TonbridgeBigBridge0020.JPG, The River Medway passes Tonbridge Castle and passes under Big Bridge. File:MedwayOakWeirLock3505.JPG, Oak Weir Lock File:MedwayBourne-3534.JPG, River Bourne enters the Medway File:MedwaySluiceWeir3549.JPG, Sluice Weir, on the right is the lock File:YaldingMedwaySluice0536.JPG, The sluice at Yalding File:YaldingHampsteadLock0545.JPG, Hampstead Lane Lock, Yalding File:WateringburyBowBridge0577.JPG, Bow Bridge, Wateringbury File:KentTestonLock0618.JPG, Teston Lock File:KentTestonBridge0629.JPG, Upstream from Teston Bridge File:Allington - Barges - River Medway.jpg, Barges moored on the Medway at Aylesford File:MedwayGrain4176.JPG,

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and Thamesport, from Horrid Hill, Gillingham. File:Grain4973.JPG, The Grain Tower at low tide. File:Grain5011.JPG, The mouth of the Medway, looking from

. File:Grain4982.JPG, And into the

, youngsters at

with

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beyond. File:M2RailLinkBridgeOverMedway9928.JPG, M2 crossing the Medway. File:IsleofGrain&Medway fromtheAir.jpg, Isle of Grain and the Medway Estuary from the air File:AllingtonLock2.JPG, Allington Lock and Sluice gates

References

External links

Map of the Medway catchment area

Detailed navigation information

Leigh Flood Barrier page from the EA

Medway Valley Countryside Partnership

Early Norman Churches In and Near the Medway Valley, Rev. Grevile M. Livett, Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. 20, Kent Archaeological Society, 1893

Bewl Canoe Club

BCU Website
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