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5 unusual facts about River Medway


Aulus Plautius

However, Plautius defeated first Caratacus, then Togodumnus, on the rivers Medway and Thames.

Cockham Wood Fort

Cockham Wood Fort was constructed in 1669 on the north bank of the River Medway.

Ethnogenesis

People in Romanian Moldova call themselves Moldovans, as subethnic denomination, and Romanians, as ethnic denomination (like Kentish and English for English people living in Kent - but the analogy is incomplete as "Kentish" only applies on the western side of the River Medway; on the eastern side are the Men and Maids of Kent).

River Medway

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 in Golden Green near Hadlow, throwing its passengers into the flood swollen river.

Short Seaford

On 30 August 1944, the prototype (MZ269) first flew from the River Medway at Rochester.


Pilgrims' Way

On modern Ordnance Survey maps, part of the route is shown running east from Farnham, passing to the south of Guildford, north of the village of Gomshall, north of Dorking, Reigate, Merstham, Chaldon, Godstone, Limpsfield and Westerham, through Otford, Kemsing and Wrotham, north of Trottiscliffe, towards Cuxton (where it crossed the River Medway).

Robert Worcester

He and his wife Margaret live at the 13th century Allington Castle, on the River Medway in Kent, where Worcester is also one of Her Majesty's Deputy Lieutenants.

Sir William Whorne

He erected a house, Whorne's Place, on the north bank of the River Medway at Cuxton, Kent, between Halling and Strood.


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