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id="toc-Geography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Climate" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Climate"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Climate</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Climate-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Buildings" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Buildings"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Buildings</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Buildings-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Economy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Economy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Culture</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Culture-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Culture subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Sweeps_Festival" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sweeps_Festival"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>Sweeps Festival</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sweeps_Festival-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Library" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Library"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2</span> <span>Library</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Library-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Huguenot_Museum" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Huguenot_Museum"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3</span> <span>Huguenot Museum</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Huguenot_Museum-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Theatre" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Theatre"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4</span> <span>Theatre</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Theatre-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.5</span> <span>Media</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Media-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sport" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.6</span> <span>Sport</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Film" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Film"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.7</span> <span>Film</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Film-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notable_people" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notable_people"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.8</span> <span>Notable people</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notable_people-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Education" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Education"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Education</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Education-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transport" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Transport</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Transport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1_(%D9%83%D9%86%D8%AA)" title="روتشستر (كنت) – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="روتشستر (كنت)" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%8C_%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AA" title="روچستر، کنت – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="روچستر، کنت" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%87%D1%8D%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80_(%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82)" title="Рочэстэр (Кент) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Рочэстэр (Кент)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_(Kent)" title="Rochester (Kent) – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Rochester (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_(Kent)" title="Rochester (Kent) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Rochester (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_(kapital_sa_kondado_sa_Hiniusang_Gingharian,_Inglatera,_Medway)" title="Rochester (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Medway) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Rochester (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Medway)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester" title="Rochester – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Rochester" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_Caint" title="Rochester, Caint – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Rochester, Caint" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_(Kent)" title="Rochester (Kent) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Rochester (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_(Kent)" title="Rochester (Kent) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Rochester (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CF%8C%CF%84%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81_(%CE%91%CE%B3%CE%B3%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%B1)" title="Ρότσεστερ (Αγγλία) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ρότσεστερ (Αγγλία)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_(Kent)" title="Rochester (Kent) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Rochester (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_(Kent)" title="Rochester (Kent) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Rochester (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_(Kent)" title="Rochester (Kent) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Rochester (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%8C_%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AA" title="روچستر، کنت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="روچستر، کنت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_(Kent)" title="Rochester (Kent) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Rochester (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester" title="Rochester – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Rochester" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A1%9C%EC%B2%B4%EC%8A%A4%ED%84%B0_(%EC%BC%84%ED%8A%B8%EC%A3%BC)" title="로체스터 (켄트주) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="로체스터 (켄트주)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8C%D5%B8%D5%B9%D5%A5%D5%BD%D5%A9%D5%A5%D6%80_(%D4%BF%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%BF)" title="Ռոչեսթեր (Կենտ) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ռոչեսթեր (Կենտ)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_(Kent)" title="Rochester (Kent) – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Rochester (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_Kent" title="Rochester, Kent – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Rochester, Kent" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_%C3%AD_Kent" title="Rochester í Kent – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Rochester í Kent" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_(Kent)" title="Rochester (Kent) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Rochester (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester" title="Rochester – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Rochester" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durobrivae" title="Durobrivae – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Durobrivae" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro%C4%8Destera_(Anglija)" title="Ročestera (Anglija) – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Ročestera (Anglija)" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1_(%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%87_%D9%81%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%89)" title="روتشستر (بلده فى ميدواى) – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="روتشستر (بلده فى ميدواى)" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_(Kent)" title="Rochester (Kent) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Rochester (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC_(%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89)" title="ロチェスター (イングランド) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ロチェスター (イングランド)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_(Kent)" title="Rochester (Kent) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Rochester (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_i_Kent" 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.pr>div{background:white!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:240px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:240px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:240px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kent_UK_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Rochester is located in Kent"><img alt="Rochester is located in Kent" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Kent_UK_location_map.svg/240px-Kent_UK_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Kent_UK_location_map.svg/360px-Kent_UK_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Kent_UK_location_map.svg/480px-Kent_UK_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1425" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:22.656%;left:33.562%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Rochester"><img alt="Rochester" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:4px"><div>Rochester</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location within <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">62,982 (2011 Census)<sup id="cite_ref-nomisweb.co.uk_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nomisweb.co.uk-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">OS grid reference</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bing.com/maps/?mkt=en-gb&v=2&cp=51.387967~0.497896&lvl=13&sp=Point.51.387967_0.497896_Rochester&sty=s&style=s">TQ739684</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">Unitary authority</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol 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href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="country-name"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Post_town" title="Post town">Post town</a></th><td class="infobox-data">ROCHESTER</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Postcodes in the United Kingdom">Postcode district</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/ME_postcode_area" title="ME postcode area">ME1, ME2</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom">Dialling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">01634</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_Dependencies_and_British_Overseas_Territories" title="List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories">Police</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kent_Police" title="Kent Police">Kent</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Fire_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Fire services in the United Kingdom">Fire</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kent_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" title="Kent Fire and Rescue Service">Kent</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom">Ambulance</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/South_East_Coast_Ambulance_Service" title="South East Coast Ambulance Service">South East Coast</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rochester_and_Strood_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Rochester and Strood (UK Parliament constituency)">Rochester & Strood</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint nowrap"><style 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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Rochester,_Kent&params=51.375_N_0.5_E_region:GB_type:city(62982)"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°22′30″N</span> <span class="longitude">0°30′00″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.375°N 0.500°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.375; 0.500</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Rochester</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="/tʃ/: 'ch' in 'China'">tʃ</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ər/: 'er' in 'letter'">ər</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">ROTCH</span>-iss-tər</i></a>) is a town in the <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authority" title="Unitary authority">unitary authority</a> of <a href="/wiki/Medway" title="Medway">Medway</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a>, England. It is at the <a href="/wiki/Lowest_bridging_point" title="Lowest bridging point">lowest bridging point</a> of the <a href="/wiki/River_Medway" title="River Medway">River Medway</a>, about 30 miles (50 km) from <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>. The town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns <a href="/wiki/Chatham,_Kent" title="Chatham, Kent">Chatham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rainham,_Kent" title="Rainham, Kent">Rainham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Strood" title="Strood">Strood</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gillingham,_Kent" title="Gillingham, Kent">Gillingham</a>. Rochester was a <a href="/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="City status in the United Kingdom">city</a> until losing its status as one in 1998 following the forming of <a href="/wiki/Medway" title="Medway">Medway</a> and failing to protect its status as a city, the first city to do so in the history of the United Kingdom. There have been ongoing campaigns to reinstate the city status for Rochester.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011 it had a population of 62,982. </p><p>Rochester was for many years a favourite of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, who owned nearby <a href="/wiki/Gads_Hill_Place" title="Gads Hill Place">Gads Hill Place</a>, <a href="/wiki/Higham,_Kent" title="Higham, Kent">Higham</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> basing many of his novels on the area. The <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Rochester" title="Diocese of Rochester">Diocese of Rochester</a>, the second oldest in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, is centred on <a href="/wiki/Rochester_Cathedral" title="Rochester Cathedral">Rochester Cathedral</a> and was responsible for founding <a href="/wiki/King%27s_School,_Rochester" title="King's School, Rochester">a school, now <i>The King's School</i></a>, in 604 AD,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is recognised as the <a href="/wiki/List_of_oldest_schools" title="List of oldest schools">second oldest continuously running school in the world</a>. <a href="/wiki/Rochester_Castle" title="Rochester Castle">Rochester Castle</a>, built by <a href="/wiki/Gundulf_of_Rochester" title="Gundulf of Rochester">Bishop Gundulf of Rochester</a>, has one of the best-preserved <a href="/wiki/Keep" title="Keep">keeps</a> in either England or France. During the <a href="/wiki/First_Barons%27_War" title="First Barons' War">First Barons' War</a> (1215–1217) in <a href="/wiki/John,_King_of_England" title="John, King of England">King John's</a> reign, baronial forces captured the castle from <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Langton" title="Stephen Langton">Archbishop Stephen Langton</a> and held it against the king, who then besieged it.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As well as the historic centre, the suburbs of <a href="/wiki/Borstal,_Rochester" title="Borstal, Rochester">Borstal</a> and The Delce are also part of Rochester, forming part of the <a href="/wiki/Medway" title="Medway">Medway Towns</a> urban area with a population of about 250,000. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Toponymy">Toponymy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Toponymy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Romano-British" class="mw-redirect" title="Romano-British">Romano-British</a> name for Rochester was <a href="/wiki/Durobrivae_(Rochester)" class="mw-redirect" title="Durobrivae (Rochester)">Durobrivae</a>, later Durobrivis c. 730 and Dorobrevis in 844. The two commonly cited origins of this name are that it either came from "stronghold by the bridge(s)"<sup id="cite_ref-Glover_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Glover-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or is the latinisation of the British word <i>Dourbruf</i> meaning "swiftstream".<sup id="cite_ref-Kellys_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kellys-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Durobrivis was pronounced 'Robrivis. Later, the word <i><a href="/wiki/C%C3%A6ster" class="mw-redirect" title="Cæster">cæster</a></i> (=castle, from Latin <i>castrum</i>) was added to the name, and the city was called <i>Robrivis Cæster</i>. <a href="/wiki/Bede" title="Bede">Bede</a> mentions the city in c. 730 and calls it <i>Hrofes cæster</i>, mistaking its meaning as Hrofi's fortified camp. From this came c. 730 Hrofæscæstre, 811 Hrofescester, 1086 Rovescester, 1610 Rochester.<sup id="cite_ref-Glover_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Glover-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Latinised adjective 'Roffensis' refers to Rochester.<sup id="cite_ref-Kellys_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kellys-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Rochester,_Kent" title="History of Rochester, Kent">History of Rochester, Kent</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eastgate_House,_Rochester,_Kent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1582490.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Eastgate_House%2C_Rochester%2C_Kent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1582490.jpg/210px-Eastgate_House%2C_Rochester%2C_Kent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1582490.jpg" decoding="async" width="210" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Eastgate_House%2C_Rochester%2C_Kent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1582490.jpg/315px-Eastgate_House%2C_Rochester%2C_Kent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1582490.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Eastgate_House%2C_Rochester%2C_Kent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1582490.jpg/420px-Eastgate_House%2C_Rochester%2C_Kent_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1582490.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="427" /></a><figcaption>Eastgate House, Rochester, Kent</figcaption></figure> <p>Neolithic remains have been found in the vicinity of Rochester; over time, it has been variously occupied by <a href="/wiki/Celts" title="Celts">Celts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Romans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jutes" title="Jutes">Jutes</a> and/or <a href="/wiki/Saxons" title="Saxons">Saxons</a>. During the Celtic period, it was one of the two administrative centres of the <a href="/wiki/Cantiaci" title="Cantiaci">Cantiaci</a> tribe. During the <a href="/wiki/Roman_conquest_of_Britain" title="Roman conquest of Britain">Roman conquest of Britain</a>, a decisive battle was fought at the Medway somewhere near Rochester. The first bridge was subsequently constructed early in the Roman period. During the later Roman period, the settlement was walled in stone. <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelberht_of_Kent" title="Æthelberht of Kent">King Æthelberht of Kent</a> (560–616) established a legal system which has been preserved in the 12th-century <i><a href="/wiki/Textus_Roffensis" title="Textus Roffensis">Textus Roffensis</a></i>. In AD 604, the bishopric and cathedral were founded. During this period, from the recall of the legions until the <a href="/wiki/Norman_conquest" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman conquest">Norman conquest</a>, Rochester was sacked at least twice and besieged on another occasion. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">medieval period</a> saw the building of the current cathedral (1080–1130, 1227 and 1343), the building of two castles and the establishment of a significant town. <a href="/wiki/Rochester_Castle" title="Rochester Castle">Rochester Castle</a> saw action in the sieges of 1215 and 1264. Rochester's basic street plan was set out, constrained by the river, Watling Street, Rochester Priory and Rochester Castle. </p><p>Rochester has produced two martyrs: <a href="/wiki/John_Fisher" title="John Fisher">St John Fisher</a>, executed by <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a> for refusing to sanction the divorce of <a href="/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon" title="Catherine of Aragon">Catherine of Aragon</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Ridley_(martyr)" title="Nicholas Ridley (martyr)">Bishop Nicholas Ridley</a>, executed by <a href="/wiki/Mary_I_of_England" title="Mary I of England">Queen Mary</a> for being an <a href="/wiki/English_Reformation" title="English Reformation">English Reformation</a> <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">protestant</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Military_history">Military history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Military history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rochester_Castle_engraved_by_H.Adlard_after_G.F.Sargent._c1836_edited.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Rochester_Castle_engraved_by_H.Adlard_after_G.F.Sargent._c1836_edited.jpg/260px-Rochester_Castle_engraved_by_H.Adlard_after_G.F.Sargent._c1836_edited.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Rochester_Castle_engraved_by_H.Adlard_after_G.F.Sargent._c1836_edited.jpg/390px-Rochester_Castle_engraved_by_H.Adlard_after_G.F.Sargent._c1836_edited.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Rochester_Castle_engraved_by_H.Adlard_after_G.F.Sargent._c1836_edited.jpg 2x" data-file-width="486" data-file-height="329" /></a><figcaption>Rochester Castle from across the <a href="/wiki/River_Medway" title="River Medway">Medway</a> (engraving, G.F. Sargent c. 1836)</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/The_Nore" class="mw-redirect" title="The Nore">The Nore</a></div> <p>Rochester has for centuries been of great strategic importance through its position near the confluence of the <a href="/wiki/River_Thames" title="River Thames">Thames</a> and the <a href="/wiki/River_Medway" title="River Medway">Medway</a>. <a href="/wiki/Rochester_Castle" title="Rochester Castle">Rochester Castle</a> was built to guard the river crossing. In 1667, the city was <a href="/wiki/Raid_on_the_Medway" title="Raid on the Medway">raided by the Dutch fleet</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Anglo-Dutch_War" title="Second Anglo-Dutch War">Second Anglo-Dutch War</a>. The Dutch, commanded by <a href="/wiki/De_Ruijter" class="mw-redirect" title="De Ruijter">Admiral de Ruijter</a>, broke through the <a href="/wiki/Coastal_defence_and_fortification" title="Coastal defence and fortification">chain</a> at <a href="/wiki/Upnor" title="Upnor">Upnor</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and sailed to Rochester Bridge capturing part of the English fleet and burning it.<sup id="cite_ref-Dutch_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dutch-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy_Dockyard" title="Royal Navy Dockyard">Royal Navy Dockyard</a>'s establishment at <a href="/wiki/Chatham,_Kent" title="Chatham, Kent">Chatham</a> witnessed the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a>'s long period of supremacy. The town, as part of Medway, is surrounded by two circles of <a href="/wiki/Fortress" class="mw-redirect" title="Fortress">fortresses</a>; the inner line built during the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleonic wars">Napoleonic wars</a> consists of <a href="/wiki/Fort_Clarence" title="Fort Clarence">Fort Clarence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Pitt,_Kent" title="Fort Pitt, Kent">Fort Pitt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Amherst" title="Fort Amherst">Fort Amherst</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fort_Gillingham" title="Fort Gillingham">Fort Gillingham</a>. The outer line of <a href="/wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston" title="Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston">Palmerston Forts</a> was built during the 1860s in light of the report by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Commission_on_the_Defence_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom">Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom</a> and consists of <a href="/wiki/Fort_Borstal" title="Fort Borstal">Fort Borstal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Bridgewood" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Bridgewood">Fort Bridgewood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Luton" title="Fort Luton">Fort Luton</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Twydall" title="Twydall">Twydall Redoubts</a>, with two additional forts on islands in the Medway, namely <a href="/wiki/Fort_Hoo" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Hoo">Fort Hoo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fort_Darnet" title="Fort Darnet">Fort Darnet</a>. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> the <a href="/wiki/Short_Brothers" title="Short Brothers">Short Brothers</a>' <a href="/wiki/Fixed-wing_aircraft" title="Fixed-wing aircraft">aircraft</a> manufacturing company developed the first plane to launch a torpedo, the <a href="/wiki/Short_Type_184" title="Short Type 184">Short Admiralty Type 184</a>, at its seaplane factory on the River Medway not far from Rochester Castle. In the intervening period between the 20th century World Wars the company established a world-wide reputation as a constructor of flying boats with aircraft such as the <a href="/wiki/Short_Singapore" title="Short Singapore">Singapore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Short_Empire" title="Short Empire">Empire</a> 'C'-Class and <a href="/wiki/Short_Sunderland" title="Short Sunderland">Sunderland</a>. During the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, Shorts also designed and manufactured the first four-engined <a href="/wiki/Bomber" title="Bomber">bomber</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Short_Stirling" title="Short Stirling">Stirling</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/UK" class="mw-redirect" title="UK">UK</a>'s decline in naval power and shipbuilding competitiveness led to the government decommissioning the RN Shipyard at Chatham in 1984, which led to the subsequent demise of much local maritime industry. Rochester and its neighbouring communities were hit hard by this and have experienced a painful adjustment to a <a href="/wiki/Post-industrial_economy" title="Post-industrial economy">post-industrial economy</a>, with much social deprivation and unemployment resulting. On the closure of Chatham Dockyard the area experienced an unprecedented surge in unemployment to 24%; this had dropped to 2.4% of the local population by 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Civic_history_and_traditions">Civic history and traditions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Civic history and traditions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rochester was recognised as a City from 1211 to 1998. The City of Rochester's ancient status was unique, as it had no formal council or Charter Trustees nor a Mayor, instead having the office of Admiral of the River Medway, whose incumbent acted as <i>de facto</i> civic leader.<sup id="cite_ref-LondonGazette48875_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LondonGazette48875-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since Norman times Rochester had always governed land on the other side of the <a href="/wiki/River_Medway" title="River Medway">Medway</a> in <a href="/wiki/Strood" title="Strood">Strood</a>, which was known as <i>Strood <a href="/wiki/Intra_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Intra (disambiguation)">Intra</a></i>; before 1835 it was about 100 yards (91 m) wide and stretched to Gun Lane. In the <a href="/wiki/Municipal_Corporations_Act_1835" title="Municipal Corporations Act 1835">Municipal Corporations Act 1835</a> the boundaries were extended to include more of Strood and Frindsbury, and part of Chatham known as <i>Chatham Intra</i>. </p><p>Like many of the medieval towns of England, Rochester had civic <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_City" title="Freedom of the City">Freemen</a> whose historic duties and rights were abolished by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. However, the <i><a href="/wiki/Guild" title="Guild">Guild</a> of Free Fishers and Dredgers</i> continues to the present day and retains rights, duties and responsibilities on the Medway, between Sheerness and Hawkwood Stone.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This ancient corporate body convenes at the Admiralty Court whose <a href="/wiki/Jury" title="Jury">Jury</a> of Freemen is responsible for the conservancy of the River as enshrined in current legislation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too vague attribution or weasel words. (September 2021)">which?</span></a></i>]</sup> The City Freedom can be obtained by residents after serving a period of "servitude", i.e. <a href="/wiki/Apprenticeship" title="Apprenticeship">apprenticeship</a> (traditionally seven years), before admission as a Freeman. The annual ceremonial <a href="/wiki/Beating_the_bounds" title="Beating the bounds">Beating of the Bounds</a> by the River Medway takes place after the Admiralty Court, usually on the first Saturday of July.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ecclesiastical_parishes">Ecclesiastical parishes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ecclesiastical parishes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Diocese_of_Rochester_arms.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Diocese_of_Rochester_arms.svg/110px-Diocese_of_Rochester_arms.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Diocese_of_Rochester_arms.svg/165px-Diocese_of_Rochester_arms.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Diocese_of_Rochester_arms.svg/220px-Diocese_of_Rochester_arms.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="491" data-file-height="652" /></a><figcaption>Arms of diocese of Rochester</figcaption></figure><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For parishes in the wider Rochester area, see <a href="/wiki/Strood#Churches" title="Strood">Strood § Churches</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Frindsbury#The_Church_of_All_Saints" title="Frindsbury">Frindsbury § The Church of All Saints</a>.</div> <p>There were three medieval <a href="/wiki/Parish" title="Parish">parishes</a>: St Nicholas', <a href="/wiki/St._Margaret%27s_Church,_Rochester" title="St. Margaret's Church, Rochester">St Margaret's</a> and St Clement's. St Clement's was in Horsewash Lane until the last vicar died in 1538 when it was joined with St Nicholas' parish; the church's last remaining foundations were finally removed when the railway was being constructed in the 1850s. <a href="/wiki/St_Nicholas%27_Church,_Rochester" class="mw-redirect" title="St Nicholas' Church, Rochester">St Nicholas' Church</a> was built in 1421 beside the <a href="/wiki/Rochester_Cathedral" title="Rochester Cathedral">cathedral</a> to serve as a parish church for the citizens of Rochester. The ancient cathedral included the <a href="/wiki/Benedictine_monastery" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedictine monastery">Benedictine monastic</a> <a href="/wiki/Priory" title="Priory">priory</a> of <a href="/wiki/St_Andrew" class="mw-redirect" title="St Andrew">St Andrew</a> with greater status than the local parishes.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rochester's pre-1537 diocese, under the jurisdiction of the Church of Rome, covered a vast area extending into East Anglia and included all of Essex.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a result of the restructuring of the Church during the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Reformation</a> the cathedral was reconsecrated as the <i>Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary</i> without <a href="/wiki/Parish_church" title="Parish church">parochial</a> responsibilities, being a diocesan church.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 19th century the parish of St Peter's was created to serve the burgeoning city with the new church being consecrated in 1859. Following demographic shifts, St Peter's and St Margaret's were recombined as a joint benefice in 1953 with the parish of St Nicholas with St Clement being absorbed in 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The combined parish is now the "Parish of St Peter with St Margaret", centred at the new (1973) Parish Centre in The Delce (St Peter's) with St Margaret's remaining as a <a href="/wiki/Chapel_of_Ease" class="mw-redirect" title="Chapel of Ease">chapel-of-ease</a>. Old St Peter's was demolished in 1974, while St Nicholas' Church has been converted into the diocesan offices but remains consecrated. Continued expansion south has led to the creation of an additional more recent parish of St Justus (1956) covering The Tideway <a href="/wiki/Housing_estate" title="Housing estate">estate</a> and surrounding area.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin at <a href="/wiki/City_gate" title="City gate">Eastgate</a>, which was of Anglo-Saxon foundation, is understood to have constituted a parish until the Middle Ages, but few records survive.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 1 April 1974, the City Council was abolished under the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1972" title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972</a>, and the territory was merged with the District of Medway, <a href="/wiki/Chatham,_Kent" title="Chatham, Kent">Borough of Chatham</a> and most of <a href="/wiki/Strood_Rural_District" title="Strood Rural District">Strood Rural District</a>, including the parishes of <a href="/wiki/Cuxton" title="Cuxton">Cuxton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Halling,_Kent" title="Halling, Kent">Halling</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cliffe-at-Hoo" class="mw-redirect" title="Cliffe-at-Hoo">Cliffe</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Hoo_Peninsula" title="Hoo Peninsula">Hoo Peninsula</a>, to form a new a <a href="/wiki/Local_authority_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Local authority district">local government district</a> called the <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Medway" class="mw-redirect" title="Borough of Medway">Borough of Medway</a>, within the county of Kent. <a href="/wiki/Medway_Borough_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Medway Borough Council">Medway Borough Council</a> applied to inherit Rochester's <a href="/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="City status in the United Kingdom">city status</a>, but this was refused; instead <a href="/wiki/Letters_patent" title="Letters patent">letters patent</a> were granted constituting the area of the former Rochester local government district to be the City of Rochester, to "perpetuate the ancient name" and to recall "the long history and proud heritage of the said City".<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Home_Office" title="Home Office">Home Office</a> said that the city status may be extended to the entire borough if it had "Rochester" in its name, so in 1979, Medway Borough Council renamed the borough to the Borough of Rochester-upon-Medway, and in 1982, Rochester's city status was transferred to the entire borough by letters patent, with the district being called the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Rochester-upon-Medway" title="City of Rochester-upon-Medway">City of Rochester-upon-Medway</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LondonGazette48875_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LondonGazette48875-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Admiral" title="Admiral">Admiral</a> of the River Medway was <i>ex-officio</i> Mayor of Rochester and this dignity transferred to the Mayor of Medway when that unitary authority was created, along with the Admiralty Court for the River which constitutes a committee of the Council.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GuildhallRochester.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/GuildhallRochester.jpg/280px-GuildhallRochester.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/GuildhallRochester.jpg/420px-GuildhallRochester.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/GuildhallRochester.jpg/560px-GuildhallRochester.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Rochester_Guildhall" title="Rochester Guildhall">The Guildhall</a>, Rochester</figcaption></figure> <p>On 1 April 1998, the existing local government districts of Rochester-upon-Medway and <a href="/wiki/Gillingham,_Kent" title="Gillingham, Kent">Gillingham</a> were abolished and became the new <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authority" title="Unitary authority">unitary authority</a> of <a href="/wiki/Medway" title="Medway">Medway</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Environment,_Transport_and_the_Regions" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions">Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions</a> informed the city council that since it was the <a href="/wiki/Local_authority_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Local authority district">local government district</a> that officially held City status under the 1982 Letters Patent, the council would need to appoint <a href="/wiki/Charter_trustees" class="mw-redirect" title="Charter trustees">charter trustees</a> to preserve its city status. However, no trustees were appointed and the city status was therefore lost when Rochester-upon-Medway was abolished as a local government district.<sup id="cite_ref-Error_costs_Rochester_city_status_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Error_costs_Rochester_city_status-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EasternDaily_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EasternDaily-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bowen2003_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowen2003-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hicks2010_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hicks2010-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The incoming Medway Council apparently only became aware of this when, in 2002, it was advised that Rochester was not on the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor%27s_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Chancellor's Office">Lord Chancellor's Office</a>'s list of cities.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2010, Medway Council started to refer to the "City of Medway" in promotional material, but it was rebuked and instructed not to do so in future by the <a href="/wiki/Advertising_Standards_Authority_(United_Kingdom)" title="Advertising Standards Authority (United Kingdom)">Advertising Standards Authority</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequently, Medway Council has applied for City status for Medway as a whole, rather than merely for Rochester. Medway applied unsuccessfully for City status in 2000 and 2002 and again in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Year of 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Any future bid to regain formal City status has been recommended to be made under the aegis of <i><b>Rochester-upon-Medway</b></i>. </p><p>The 2011 definition of Rochester includes <a href="/wiki/Strood" title="Strood">Strood</a> to the northwest and is defined as an urban subdivision with a 2011 population of 62,982.<sup id="cite_ref-nomisweb.co.uk_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nomisweb.co.uk-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Strood makes up the majority of Rochester's population on the west bank of the river, making the town of Rochester itself on the east bank actually smaller and less populated than its neighbouring town; should the two towns ever separate Strood would be the larger of the two. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Edwards" title="Lauren Edwards">Lauren Edwards</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_parliament" title="Member of parliament">MP</a> is the current Labour parliamentary representative for <a href="/wiki/Rochester_and_Strood_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Rochester and Strood (UK Parliament constituency)">the constituency</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Kent" title="Geography of Kent">Geography of Kent</a></div> <p>Rochester lies within the area, known to <a href="/wiki/Geologist" title="Geologist">geologists</a>, as the <a href="/wiki/London_Basin" title="London Basin">London Basin</a>. The low-lying <a href="/wiki/Hoo_peninsula" class="mw-redirect" title="Hoo peninsula">Hoo peninsula</a> to the north of the town consists of <a href="/wiki/London_Clay" title="London Clay">London Clay</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Alluvium" title="Alluvium">alluvium</a> brought down by the two rivers—the <a href="/wiki/River_Thames" title="River Thames">Thames</a> and the <a href="/wiki/River_Medway" title="River Medway">Medway</a>—whose confluence is in this area. The land rises from the river, and being on the dip slope of the <a href="/wiki/North_Downs" title="North Downs">North Downs</a>, this consists of <a href="/wiki/Chalk" title="Chalk">chalk</a> surmounted by the Blackheath Beds of sand and gravel. </p><p>As a <a href="/wiki/Human_settlement" title="Human settlement">human settlement</a>, Rochester became established as the lowest river crossing of the River Medway, well before the arrival of the Romans. </p><p>It is a focal point between two routes, being part of the main route connecting London with the Continent and the north-south routes following the course of the Medway connecting <a href="/wiki/Maidstone" title="Maidstone">Maidstone</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Weald_of_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Weald of Kent">Weald of Kent</a> with the Thames and the North Sea. The Thames Marshes were an important source of <a href="/wiki/Sea_salt" title="Sea salt">salt</a>. Rochester's roads follow north Kent's valleys and ridges of steep-sided <a href="/wiki/Chalk" title="Chalk">chalk</a> <a href="/wiki/Bourne_(stream)" title="Bourne (stream)">bournes</a>. There are four ways out of town to the south: up Star Hill, via <a href="/wiki/Dairy" title="Dairy">The Delce</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along the Maidstone Road or through <a href="/wiki/Borstal,_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Borstal, Kent">Borstal</a>. The town is inextricably linked with the neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Medway_Towns" class="mw-redirect" title="Medway Towns">Medway Towns</a> but separated from <a href="/wiki/Maidstone" title="Maidstone">Maidstone</a> by a protective <a href="/wiki/Ridge" title="Ridge">ridge</a> known as the <a href="/wiki/North_Downs" title="North Downs">Downs</a>, a designated <a href="/wiki/Area_of_Outstanding_Natural_Beauty" title="Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty">area of Outstanding Natural Beauty</a>. </p><p>At its most limited geographical size, Rochester is defined as the market town within the <a href="/wiki/City_wall" class="mw-redirect" title="City wall">city walls</a>, now associated with the historic medieval city. However, Rochester historically also included the ancient <a href="/wiki/Ward_(electoral_subdivision)" title="Ward (electoral subdivision)">wards</a> of Strood Intra on the river's west bank, and Chatham Intra as well as the three old <a href="/wiki/Parish_(Church_of_England)" title="Parish (Church of England)">parishes</a> on the Medway's east bank. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Rochester" title="Diocese of Rochester">diocese of Rochester</a> is another geographical entity which can be referred to as Rochester. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Climate">Climate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rochester has an <a href="/wiki/Oceanic_climate" title="Oceanic climate">oceanic climate</a> similar to much of southern England, being accorded <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_Climate_Classification" class="mw-redirect" title="Köppen Climate Classification">Köppen Climate Classification-subtype</a> of "<a href="/wiki/Oceanic_climate" title="Oceanic climate">Cfb</a>" (Marine West Coast Climate).<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 10 August 2003, neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Gravesend" title="Gravesend">Gravesend</a> recorded one of the highest temperatures since meteorological records began in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, with a reading of 38.1 degrees Celsius (100.6 degrees Fahrenheit),<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> only beaten by <a href="/wiki/Brogdale" title="Brogdale">Brogdale</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Faversham" title="Faversham">Faversham</a>, 22 miles (35 km) to the ESE.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The weather station at Brogdale is run by a volunteer, only reporting its data once a month, whereas <a href="/wiki/Gravesend" title="Gravesend">Gravesend</a>, which has an official Met Office site at the PLA pilot station,<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reports data hourly. </p><p>Being near the mouth of the Thames Estuary with the North Sea, Rochester is relatively close to <a href="/wiki/Continental_Europe" title="Continental Europe">continental Europe</a> and enjoys a somewhat less temperate climate than other parts of Kent and most of East Anglia. It is therefore less cloudy, drier and less prone to <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic</a> <a href="/wiki/Low-pressure_area" title="Low-pressure area">depressions</a> with their associated wind and rain than western regions of Britain, as well as being hotter in summer and colder in winter. Rochester city centre's micro-climate is more accurately reflected by these officially recorded figures than by readings taken at Rochester Airport.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>North and <a href="/wiki/North_West_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="North West Kent">North West Kent</a> continue to record higher temperatures in <a href="/wiki/Summer" title="Summer">summer</a>, sometimes being the hottest area of the country, <i>eg.</i> on the warmest day of 2011, when temperatures reached 33.1 degrees.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, it holds at least two records for the year 2010, of 30.9 °C<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 31.7 °C.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another record was set during England's Indian summer of 2011 with 29.9 °C, the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK for October. </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Stanford-le-Hope (nearest climate station to Gravesend) 1981–2010 </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFE7D0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.9<br />(46.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.0<br />(46.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.9<br />(51.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFC387; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.2<br />(55.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFAA55; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.8<br />(62.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF942A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.9<br />(67.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF850C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.1<br />(71.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF850B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.2<br />(72.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF9831; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.4<br />(66.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFB56B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.2<br />(59.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFD3A8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.8<br />(51.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.1<br />(46.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFBA75; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">14.5<br />(58.2) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #F2F2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.2<br />(36.0) </td> <td style="background: #EFEFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.6<br />(34.9) </td> <td style="background: #F8F8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.3<br />(37.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFFDFC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.7<br />(40.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFEAD5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.5<br />(45.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFD5AC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.5<br />(50.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFC489; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.0<br />(55.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFC790; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.5<br />(54.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFD7AF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.3<br />(50.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFEBD7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.4<br />(45.3) </td> <td style="background: #FEFEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.4<br />(39.9) </td> <td style="background: #F3F3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.4<br />(36.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFEFE0; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">6.7<br />(44.0) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #B7B7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47.9<br />(1.89) </td> <td style="background: #C2C2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.7<br />(1.44) </td> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.6<br />(1.48) </td> <td style="background: #C0C0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">40.9<br />(1.61) </td> <td style="background: #B7B7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">48.0<br />(1.89) </td> <td style="background: #BFBFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41.1<br />(1.62) </td> <td style="background: #B0B0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52.5<br />(2.07) </td> <td style="background: #BCBCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">44.8<br />(1.76) </td> <td style="background: #B8B8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45.5<br />(1.79) </td> <td style="background: #9E9EFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.9<br />(2.56) </td> <td style="background: #A5A5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57.8<br />(2.28) </td> <td style="background: #AEAEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">53.8<br />(2.12) </td> <td style="background: #B6B6FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">571.5<br />(22.51) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean monthly <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #6D6D6D; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">60.0 </td> <td style="background: #9B9B9B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77.7 </td> <td style="background: #B3B372; color:#000000;" class="notheme">113.4 </td> <td style="background: #CBCB00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">161.5 </td> <td style="background: #D6D600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">194.3 </td> <td style="background: #D8D800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">198.7 </td> <td style="background: #D9D900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">208.7 </td> <td style="background: #D6D600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">195.5 </td> <td style="background: #C6C600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">151.1 </td> <td style="background: #B5B565; color:#000000;" class="notheme">117.9 </td> <td style="background: #8B8B8B; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">74.0 </td> <td style="background: #585858; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">48.6 </td> <td style="background: #BDBD34; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,601.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: <a href="/wiki/Met_Office" title="Met Office">Met Office</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Buildings">Buildings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Buildings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rochester comprises numerous important historic buildings, the most prominent of which are the <a href="/wiki/Rochester_Guildhall" title="Rochester Guildhall">Guildhall</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Corn_Exchange,_Rochester" title="Corn Exchange, Rochester">Corn Exchange</a>, <a href="/wiki/Restoration_House" title="Restoration House">Restoration House</a>, Eastgate House, as well as <a href="/wiki/Rochester_Castle" title="Rochester Castle">Rochester Castle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rochester_Cathedral" title="Rochester Cathedral">Rochester Cathedral</a>. Many of the town centre's old buildings date from as early as the 14th century up to the 18th century. The <a href="/wiki/Chapel" title="Chapel">chapel</a> of <a href="/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Hospital,_Rochester" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester">St Bartholomew's Hospital</a> dates from the ancient priory hospital's foundation in 1078. </p><p>In the 21st century the Riverside area north of the railway line has been redeveloped to provide new housing and a primary school.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Chatham_Dockyard" title="Chatham Dockyard">Chatham Dockyard</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rochester2007Dickens0650c.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Rochester2007Dickens0650c.JPG/220px-Rochester2007Dickens0650c.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Rochester2007Dickens0650c.JPG/330px-Rochester2007Dickens0650c.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Rochester2007Dickens0650c.JPG/440px-Rochester2007Dickens0650c.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1845" data-file-height="1383" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><b>Rochester High Street</b></div></figcaption></figure> <p>Thomas Aveling started a small business in 1850 producing and repairing <a href="/wiki/List_of_agricultural_machinery" title="List of agricultural machinery">agricultural plant equipment</a>. In 1861 this became the firm of <a href="/wiki/Aveling_and_Porter" title="Aveling and Porter">Aveling and Porter</a>, which was to become the largest manufacturer of agricultural machinery and <a href="/wiki/Steamroller" title="Steamroller">steam rollers</a> in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-Shire_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shire-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Aveling was elected Admiral of the River Medway (i.e. Mayor of Rochester) for 1869-70. </p><p>Tourism is now a sector.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sweeps_Festival">Sweeps Festival</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Sweeps Festival"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since 1980 the city has seen the revival of the historic Rochester <a href="/wiki/Jack-in-the-Green" class="mw-redirect" title="Jack-in-the-Green">Jack-in-the-Green</a> <a href="/wiki/May_Day" title="May Day">May Day</a> dancing <a href="/wiki/Chimney_sweeps" class="mw-redirect" title="Chimney sweeps">chimney sweeps</a> tradition, which had died out in the early 1900s. Though not unique to Rochester (similar sweeps' gatherings were held across southern England, including in Bristol, Deptford, Whitstable and Hastings), its revival was directly inspired by Dickens' description of the celebration in <i><a href="/wiki/Sketches_by_Boz" title="Sketches by Boz">Sketches by Boz</a></i>. </p><p>The festival has since grown from a small gathering of local <a href="/wiki/Morris_dance" title="Morris dance">Morris dance</a> sides to one of the largest in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The festival begins with the "Awakening of Jack-in-the-Green" ceremony,<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and continues in Rochester High Street over the May <a href="/wiki/Bank_Holiday" class="mw-redirect" title="Bank Holiday">Bank Holiday</a> weekend. </p><p>There are numerous other festivals in Rochester apart from the Sweeps Festival. The association with Dickens is the theme for Rochester's two Dickens Festivals held annually in June and December.<sup id="cite_ref-historic-uk1_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-historic-uk1-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Medway Fuse Festival<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> usually arranges performances in Rochester and the latest festival to take shape is the Rochester Literature Festival, the brainchild of three local writers.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Library">Library</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Library"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A new <a href="/wiki/Public_library" title="Public library">public library</a> was built alongside the Adult Education Centre, Eastgate. This enabled the registry office to move from Maidstone Road, Chatham into the Corn Exchange on Rochester High Street (where the library was formerly housed). As mentioned in a report presented to Medway Council's <i>Community Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee</i> on 28 March 2006, the new library opened in late summer (2006).<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Huguenot_Museum">Huguenot Museum</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Huguenot Museum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A new Huguenot Museum, which includes items from the collections of the <a href="/wiki/French_Hospital_(La_Providence)" title="French Hospital (La Providence)">French Hospital</a>, was opened in Rochester on 13 May 2015, with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and individual donations.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theatre">Theatre</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2006SweepsSideRochester.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/2006SweepsSideRochester.JPG/220px-2006SweepsSideRochester.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/2006SweepsSideRochester.JPG/330px-2006SweepsSideRochester.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/2006SweepsSideRochester.JPG/440px-2006SweepsSideRochester.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>Sweeps festival in 2006</figcaption></figure> <p>There is a small amateur theatre, Medway Little Theatre, on St Margaret's Banks, Rochester High Street (the part of the High Street that continues from Star Hill towards Chatham) and just opposite the former railway station.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Converted from a building which in its almost 200-year history had been, amongst other things, a wine merchants, warehouse and printing works the theatre's first season was in 1958. Since then hundreds of plays have been presented ranging from Shakespeare to Ayckbourn, modern classics to timeless farces along with many plays presented for the first time in the Medway Towns and, indeed, Kent. Medway Little Theatre also has a thriving youth company and a children's workshop for younger people. Every summer the Duncan Rand One-Act Play Festival (named after one of Medway Little Theatre's founders) attracts groups from far and wide.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Media">Media</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Local newspapers for Rochester include the <i>Medway Messenger</i>, published by the <a href="/wiki/KM_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="KM Group">KM Group</a>, and free papers. </p><p>The local commercial <a href="/wiki/Radio_broadcasting" title="Radio broadcasting">radio station</a> for Rochester is <a href="/wiki/KMFM_Medway" title="KMFM Medway">KMFM Medway</a>, owned by the KM Group. Medway is also served by community radio station <a href="/wiki/Radio_Sunlight" title="Radio Sunlight">Radio Sunlight</a> which is now an online service. The area also receives broadcasts from county-wide stations <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Kent" title="BBC Radio Kent">BBC Radio Kent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heart_South" title="Heart South">Heart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gold_(British_radio_network)" title="Gold (British radio network)">Gold</a> and <a href="/wiki/Smooth_Radio_(2014)" title="Smooth Radio (2014)">Smooth</a>, as well as from various <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greater_London" title="Greater London">Greater London</a> radio stations.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rochester is part of the <a href="/wiki/ITV_Meridian" title="ITV Meridian">ITV Meridian</a> and <a href="/wiki/BBC_South_East" title="BBC South East">BBC South East</a> area, receiving television signals from the <a href="/wiki/Bluebell_Hill_transmitting_station" title="Bluebell Hill transmitting station">Bluebell Hill</a> transmitter on the crest of the <a href="/wiki/North_Downs" title="North Downs">North Downs</a> to the SE, supplemented by a low power relay transmitter in central Chatham. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sport">Sport</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">Football</a> is played with many teams competing in Saturday and Sunday leagues.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The local football club is <a href="/wiki/Rochester_United_F.C." title="Rochester United F.C.">Rochester United F.C</a>. Rochester F.C. was its old football club but has been defunct for many decades. <a href="/wiki/Rugby_football" title="Rugby football">Rugby</a> is also played; <a href="/wiki/Medway_RFC" title="Medway RFC">Medway RFC</a> play their matches at Priestfields and <i>Old Williamsonians</i> is associated with <a href="/wiki/Sir_Joseph_Williamson%27s_Mathematical_School" title="Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School">Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">Cricket</a> is played in the town, with teams entered in the <a href="/wiki/Kent_Cricket_League" title="Kent Cricket League">Kent Cricket League</a>. <a href="/wiki/Holcombe_Hockey_Club" title="Holcombe Hockey Club">Holcombe Hockey Club</a> enter teams in both the <a href="/wiki/Men%27s_England_Hockey_League" title="Men's England Hockey League">Men's</a> and <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_England_Hockey_League" title="Women's England Hockey League">Women's England Hockey Leagues</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Motorcycle_speedway" title="Motorcycle speedway">Speedway</a> was staged on a track adjacent to City Way that opened in 1932. Proposals for a revival in the early 1970s did not materialise and the <i>Rochester Bombers</i> became the <a href="/wiki/Romford_Bombers" title="Romford Bombers">Romford Bombers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sailing and rowing are also popular on the River Medway with respective clubs being based in Rochester.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film">Film</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1959 <a href="/wiki/James_Bond" title="James Bond">James Bond</a> novel <i><a href="/wiki/Goldfinger_(novel)" title="Goldfinger (novel)">Goldfinger</a></i> describes Bond driving along the <a href="/wiki/A2_road_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="A2 road (Great Britain)">A2</a> through the Medway Towns from Strood to Chatham. Of interest is the mention of "inevitable traffic jams" on the <a href="/wiki/Strood" title="Strood">Strood</a> side of <a href="/wiki/Rochester_Bridge" title="Rochester Bridge">Rochester Bridge</a>, the novel being written some years prior to the construction of the <a href="/wiki/M2_motorway_(Great_Britain)" title="M2 motorway (Great Britain)">M2 motorway</a> Medway bypass. </p><p>Rochester is the setting of the controversial 1965 <a href="/wiki/Peter_Watkins" title="Peter Watkins">Peter Watkins</a> television film <i><a href="/wiki/The_War_Game" title="The War Game">The War Game</a></i>, which depicts the town's destruction by a nuclear missile.<sup id="cite_ref-WarGame_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WarGame-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The opening sequence was shot in <a href="/wiki/Chatham_Town_Hall" title="Chatham Town Hall">Chatham Town Hall</a>, but the credits particularly thank the people of <a href="/wiki/Dover" title="Dover">Dover</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gravesend" title="Gravesend">Gravesend</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tonbridge" title="Tonbridge">Tonbridge</a>. </p><p>The 2011 adventure film <i><a href="/wiki/Ironclad_(film)" title="Ironclad (film)">Ironclad</a></i> is based upon the <a href="/wiki/First_Barons%27_War#Sieges_of_Windsor_and_Rochester" title="First Barons' War">1215 siege of Rochester Castle</a>. There are however <a href="/wiki/Ironclad_(film)#Fictional_elements" title="Ironclad (film)">areas where the plot differs from accepted historical narrative</a>. </p><p>A scene in the 2001 film <i>Last Orders</i>, starring Bob Hoskins and Tom Courtenay, was filmed in Rochester High Street.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The historic city was for many years the favourite of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, who lived within the diocese at nearby <a href="/wiki/Gads_Hill_Place" title="Gads Hill Place">Gads Hill Place</a>, <a href="/wiki/Higham,_Kent" title="Higham, Kent">Higham</a>, many of his novels being based on the area. Descriptions of the town appear in <i><a href="/wiki/Pickwick_Papers" class="mw-redirect" title="Pickwick Papers">Pickwick Papers</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Great_Expectations" title="Great Expectations">Great Expectations</a></i> and (lightly fictionalised as "Cloisterham") in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Edwin_Drood" title="The Mystery of Edwin Drood">The Mystery of Edwin Drood</a></i>. Elements of two houses in Rochester, Satis House and <a href="/wiki/Restoration_House" title="Restoration House">Restoration House</a>, are used for <a href="/wiki/Miss_Havisham" title="Miss Havisham">Miss Havisham</a>'s house in <i>Great Expectations</i>, <a href="/wiki/Satis_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Satis House">Satis House</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A monk of Rochester, <a href="/wiki/Edmund_of_Hadenham" title="Edmund of Hadenham">Edmund of Hadenham</a> (<a href="/wiki/Floruit" title="Floruit">fl.</a> 1307) was an English chronicler. </p><p>The priest, botanist and geologist <a href="/wiki/John_Stevens_Henslow" title="John Stevens Henslow">John Stevens Henslow</a> (1796–1861) was born in Rochester. </p><p>The actress Dame <a href="/wiki/Sybil_Thorndike" title="Sybil Thorndike">Sybil Thorndike</a> and her brother <a href="/wiki/Russell_Thorndike" title="Russell Thorndike">Russell</a> were brought up in Minor Canon Row adjacent to the cathedral; the daughter of a <a href="/wiki/Canon_(priest)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon (priest)">canon</a> of Rochester Cathedral, she was educated at <a href="/wiki/Rochester_Grammar_School_for_Girls" class="mw-redirect" title="Rochester Grammar School for Girls">Rochester Grammar School for Girls</a>. A local doctors' practice,<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> local dental practice<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a hall at Rochester Grammar School are all named after her.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Peter_Buck_(mayor)" title="Peter Buck (mayor)">Sir Peter Buck</a> was <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Medway" title="Mayor of Medway">Admiral of the Medway</a> in the 17th century; <a href="/wiki/Knight" title="Knight">knighted</a> in 1603 he and <a href="/wiki/William_Barlow_(bishop_of_Lincoln)" title="William Barlow (bishop of Lincoln)">Bishop Barlow</a> hosted <a href="/wiki/James_VI_and_I" title="James VI and I">King James</a>, the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Stuart" title="House of Stuart">Stuart royal family</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Christian_IV_of_Denmark" title="Christian IV of Denmark">King of Denmark</a> in 1606. A <a href="/wiki/Honourable_Corps_of_Gentlemen_at_Arms" title="Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms">civil servant</a> to <a href="/wiki/Chatham_Dockyard" title="Chatham Dockyard">The Royal Dockyard</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Admiral_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom">Lord High Admiral</a>, Buck lived at <a href="/wiki/Eastgate_House,_Rochester" title="Eastgate House, Rochester">Eastgate House, Rochester</a>. </p><p>Major-General <a href="/wiki/Denis_Redman" title="Denis Redman">Denis Redman</a>, a <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> veteran, was born and raised in Rochester and later became a founder member of <a href="/wiki/REME" class="mw-redirect" title="REME">REME</a>, head of his Corps and a <a href="/wiki/Major-general_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Major-general (United Kingdom)">Major-General in the British Army</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Model_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Model (people)">model</a> and actress <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Brook" title="Kelly Brook">Kelly Brook</a> went to Delce Junior School in Rochester and later the <a href="/wiki/The_Thomas_Aveling_School" title="The Thomas Aveling School">Thomas Aveling School</a> (formerly Warren Wood Girls School). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a full list of schools serving Rochester, see <a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Medway" title="List of schools in Medway">List of schools in Medway</a>.</div> <p>Medway council run a <a href="/wiki/Selective_school#United_Kingdom" title="Selective school">selective system of education</a>, similar to other local authorities in Kent, but call their <a href="/wiki/Secondary_modern_school" title="Secondary modern school">secondary modern schools</a> <i>secondary schools</i>. Almost all secondary schools in Rochester have opted for <a href="/wiki/Academy_(English_school)" title="Academy (English school)">academy</a> status. </p><p>In 1701, <a href="/wiki/Sir_Joseph_Williamson" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Joseph Williamson">Sir Joseph Williamson</a> left a bequest to establish the <a href="/wiki/Sir_Joseph_Williamson%27s_Mathematical_School" title="Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School">Mathematical School</a>, a boys' grammar school, also referred to either as <i>Rochester Math</i> or <i>The Math School</i>. 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typeof="mw:File"><span title="STR"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/20px-BSicon_STR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/30px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/40px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="BHF"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/BSicon_BHF.svg/20px-BSicon_BHF.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/BSicon_BHF.svg/30px-BSicon_BHF.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/BSicon_BHF.svg/40px-BSicon_BHF.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Gravesend_railway_station" title="Gravesend railway station">Gravesend</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Sole_Street_railway_station" title="Sole Street railway station">Sole Street</a> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div class="RM_"></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="HST"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/20px-BSicon_HST.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/30px-BSicon_HST.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/40px-BSicon_HST.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="STR"><img alt="" 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cellpadding="0" class="RMsplit" style="text-align:inherit;font-style:italic;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:105%"><a href="/wiki/Medway_Valley_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Medway Valley Line">Medway Valley Line</a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit;font-style:italic">to <a href="/wiki/Maidstone_West_railway_station" title="Maidstone West railway station">Maidstone</a></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="dCONTgq"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/BSicon_dCONTgq.svg/10px-BSicon_dCONTgq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/BSicon_dCONTgq.svg/15px-BSicon_dCONTgq.svg.png 1.5x, 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/30px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/40px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><div class="RMov"><div class="RMic"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="STR; lGRZ2+4"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/BSicon_lGRZ2%2B4.svg/20px-BSicon_lGRZ2%2B4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/BSicon_lGRZ2%2B4.svg/30px-BSicon_lGRZ2%2B4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/BSicon_lGRZ2%2B4.svg/40px-BSicon_lGRZ2%2B4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="STR; lGRZ2+4"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/20px-BSicon_STR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/30px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/40px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="HST"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/20px-BSicon_HST.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/30px-BSicon_HST.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/40px-BSicon_HST.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RMd"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Higham_railway_station_(Kent)" title="Higham railway station (Kent)">Higham</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Halling_railway_station" title="Halling railway station">Halling</a> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="HST"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/20px-BSicon_HST.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/30px-BSicon_HST.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/40px-BSicon_HST.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="STR"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/20px-BSicon_STR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/30px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/40px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="STR"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/20px-BSicon_STR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/30px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/40px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><div class="RMov"><div class="RMic"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="STR; lGRZl+4"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/BSicon_lGRZl%2B4.svg/20px-BSicon_lGRZl%2B4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/BSicon_lGRZl%2B4.svg/30px-BSicon_lGRZl%2B4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/BSicon_lGRZl%2B4.svg/40px-BSicon_lGRZl%2B4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="STR; lGRZl+4"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/20px-BSicon_STR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/30px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/40px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249493202"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="RMsplit" style="text-align:inherit;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;border-bottom:1px solid gray;font-size:inherit"><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Gravesham" class="mw-redirect" title="Borough of Gravesham">Borough of Gravesham</a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit"><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Medway" class="mw-redirect" title="Borough of Medway">Borough of Medway</a></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Cuxton_railway_station" title="Cuxton railway station">Cuxton</a> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="HST"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/20px-BSicon_HST.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/30px-BSicon_HST.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/40px-BSicon_HST.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="STR"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/20px-BSicon_STR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/30px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/BSicon_STR.svg/40px-BSicon_STR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="kSTR3"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/BSicon_kSTR3.svg/20px-BSicon_kSTR3.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/BSicon_kSTR3.svg/30px-BSicon_kSTR3.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/BSicon_kSTR3.svg/40px-BSicon_kSTR3.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="TUNNEL1"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_TUNNEL1.svg/20px-BSicon_TUNNEL1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_TUNNEL1.svg/30px-BSicon_TUNNEL1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_TUNNEL1.svg/40px-BSicon_TUNNEL1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249493202"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="RMsplit" style="text-align:inherit;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit">Higham and</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit">Strood Tunnels</td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249493202"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="RMsplit" style="text-align:right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit">3931 yd</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit">3595 m</td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><i><a href="/wiki/High_Speed_1" title="High Speed 1">High Speed 1</a></i></div> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="dCONTgq"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/BSicon_dCONTgq.svg/10px-BSicon_dCONTgq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/BSicon_dCONTgq.svg/15px-BSicon_dCONTgq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/BSicon_dCONTgq.svg/20px-BSicon_dCONTgq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="KRZu"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/BSicon_KRZu.svg/20px-BSicon_KRZu.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/BSicon_KRZu.svg/30px-BSicon_KRZu.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/BSicon_KRZu.svg/40px-BSicon_KRZu.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="kKRZr+1u"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/BSicon_kKRZr%2B1u.svg/20px-BSicon_kKRZr%2B1u.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/BSicon_kKRZr%2B1u.svg/30px-BSicon_kKRZr%2B1u.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/BSicon_kKRZr%2B1u.svg/40px-BSicon_kKRZr%2B1u.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="kSTRc4"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/BSicon_kSTRc4.svg/20px-BSicon_kSTRc4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/BSicon_kSTRc4.svg/30px-BSicon_kSTRc4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/BSicon_kSTRc4.svg/40px-BSicon_kSTRc4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="eABZg2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/BSicon_eABZg2.svg/20px-BSicon_eABZg2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/BSicon_eABZg2.svg/30px-BSicon_eABZg2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/BSicon_eABZg2.svg/40px-BSicon_eABZg2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exdSTRc3"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/BSicon_exdSTRc3.svg/10px-BSicon_exdSTRc3.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/BSicon_exdSTRc3.svg/15px-BSicon_exdSTRc3.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/BSicon_exdSTRc3.svg/20px-BSicon_exdSTRc3.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><a href="/wiki/M2_motorway_(England)" class="mw-redirect" title="M2 motorway (England)">M2 motorway</a></div> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div class="RM_"></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="SKRZ-Bu"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/BSicon_SKRZ-Bu.svg/20px-BSicon_SKRZ-Bu.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/BSicon_SKRZ-Bu.svg/30px-BSicon_SKRZ-Bu.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/BSicon_SKRZ-Bu.svg/40px-BSicon_SKRZ-Bu.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="SKRZ-Bu"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/BSicon_SKRZ-Bu.svg/20px-BSicon_SKRZ-Bu.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/BSicon_SKRZ-Bu.svg/30px-BSicon_SKRZ-Bu.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/BSicon_SKRZ-Bu.svg/40px-BSicon_SKRZ-Bu.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RM_"></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="cSTRc2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_cSTRc2.svg/5px-BSicon_cSTRc2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="5" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_cSTRc2.svg/7px-BSicon_cSTRc2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_cSTRc2.svg/10px-BSicon_cSTRc2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="125" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="dSTR3"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/BSicon_dSTR3.svg/10px-BSicon_dSTR3.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/BSicon_dSTR3.svg/15px-BSicon_dSTR3.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/BSicon_dSTR3.svg/20px-BSicon_dSTR3.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="excSTRc1"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/BSicon_excSTRc1.svg/5px-BSicon_excSTRc1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="5" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/BSicon_excSTRc1.svg/7px-BSicon_excSTRc1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/BSicon_excSTRc1.svg/10px-BSicon_excSTRc1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="125" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exKBHF4"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/BSicon_exKBHF4.svg/20px-BSicon_exKBHF4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/BSicon_exKBHF4.svg/30px-BSicon_exKBHF4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/BSicon_exKBHF4.svg/40px-BSicon_exKBHF4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249493202"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="RMsplit" style="text-align:inherit;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:105%"><a href="/wiki/Strood_(1st)_railway_station" title="Strood (1st) railway station">Strood</a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal">(Old Terminus)</td></tr></tbody></table>  </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="vSTRl-"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/BSicon_vSTRl-.svg/20px-BSicon_vSTRl-.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/BSicon_vSTRl-.svg/30px-BSicon_vSTRl-.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/BSicon_vSTRl-.svg/40px-BSicon_vSTRl-.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="dKRZo"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/BSicon_dKRZo.svg/10px-BSicon_dKRZo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/BSicon_dKRZo.svg/15px-BSicon_dKRZo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/BSicon_dKRZo.svg/20px-BSicon_dKRZo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="dABZq+l"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/BSicon_dABZq%2Bl.svg/10px-BSicon_dABZq%2Bl.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/BSicon_dABZq%2Bl.svg/15px-BSicon_dABZq%2Bl.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/BSicon_dABZq%2Bl.svg/20px-BSicon_dABZq%2Bl.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="BHFr+1"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/BSicon_BHFr%2B1.svg/20px-BSicon_BHFr%2B1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/BSicon_BHFr%2B1.svg/30px-BSicon_BHFr%2B1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/BSicon_BHFr%2B1.svg/40px-BSicon_BHFr%2B1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="dSTRc4"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/BSicon_dSTRc4.svg/10px-BSicon_dSTRc4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/BSicon_dSTRc4.svg/15px-BSicon_dSTRc4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/BSicon_dSTRc4.svg/20px-BSicon_dSTRc4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Strood_railway_station" title="Strood railway station">Strood</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249493202"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="RMsplit" style="text-align:inherit;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit"><a href="/wiki/Rochester_Bridge_railway_station" title="Rochester Bridge railway station">Rochester</a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit"><a href="/wiki/Rochester_Bridge_railway_station" title="Rochester Bridge railway station">Bridge</a></td></tr></tbody></table>  (<span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/London,_Chatham_%26_Dover_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="London, Chatham & Dover Railway">LCDR</a></span>) </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><div class="RMov"><div class="RMic"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exlvHST-; evÜSTlxr"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/BSicon_ev%C3%9CSTlxr.svg/20px-BSicon_ev%C3%9CSTlxr.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/BSicon_ev%C3%9CSTlxr.svg/30px-BSicon_ev%C3%9CSTlxr.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/BSicon_ev%C3%9CSTlxr.svg/40px-BSicon_ev%C3%9CSTlxr.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exlvHST-; evÜSTlxr"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/BSicon_exlvHST-.svg/20px-BSicon_exlvHST-.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/BSicon_exlvHST-.svg/30px-BSicon_exlvHST-.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/BSicon_exlvHST-.svg/40px-BSicon_exlvHST-.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div></div><div class="RMd"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><a href="/wiki/River_Medway" title="River Medway">River Medway</a></div> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSERl+4"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/BSicon_WASSERl%2B4.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSERl%2B4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/BSicon_WASSERl%2B4.svg/30px-BSicon_WASSERl%2B4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/BSicon_WASSERl%2B4.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSERl%2B4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="dWASSERq"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/BSicon_dWASSERq.svg/10px-BSicon_dWASSERq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/BSicon_dWASSERq.svg/15px-BSicon_dWASSERq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/BSicon_dWASSERq.svg/20px-BSicon_dWASSERq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exdWBRÜCKE"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/BSicon_exdWBR%C3%9CCKE.svg/10px-BSicon_exdWBR%C3%9CCKE.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/BSicon_exdWBR%C3%9CCKE.svg/15px-BSicon_exdWBR%C3%9CCKE.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/BSicon_exdWBR%C3%9CCKE.svg/20px-BSicon_exdWBR%C3%9CCKE.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="dWBRÜCKE"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/BSicon_dWBR%C3%9CCKE.svg/10px-BSicon_dWBR%C3%9CCKE.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/BSicon_dWBR%C3%9CCKE.svg/15px-BSicon_dWBR%C3%9CCKE.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/BSicon_dWBR%C3%9CCKE.svg/20px-BSicon_dWBR%C3%9CCKE.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="dWASSERq"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/BSicon_dWASSERq.svg/10px-BSicon_dWASSERq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/BSicon_dWASSERq.svg/15px-BSicon_dWASSERq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/BSicon_dWASSERq.svg/20px-BSicon_dWASSERq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER+r"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/BSicon_WASSER%2Br.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER%2Br.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/BSicon_WASSER%2Br.svg/30px-BSicon_WASSER%2Br.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/BSicon_WASSER%2Br.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER%2Br.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RMd"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><a href="/wiki/Rochester_Bridge" title="Rochester Bridge">Rochester Bridge</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div class="RM_"></div><div><div class="RMov"><div class="RMic"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="evSTR; evSTRl-STRo"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/BSicon_evSTRl-STRo.svg/20px-BSicon_evSTRl-STRo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/BSicon_evSTRl-STRo.svg/30px-BSicon_evSTRl-STRo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/BSicon_evSTRl-STRo.svg/40px-BSicon_evSTRl-STRo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="evSTR; evSTRl-STRo"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/BSicon_evSTR.svg/20px-BSicon_evSTR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/BSicon_evSTR.svg/30px-BSicon_evSTR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/BSicon_evSTR.svg/40px-BSicon_evSTR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div></div><div><div class="RMov"><div class="RMic"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="d; exKBSTeq"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/BSicon_exKBSTeq.svg/20px-BSicon_exKBSTeq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/BSicon_exKBSTeq.svg/30px-BSicon_exKBSTeq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/BSicon_exKBSTeq.svg/40px-BSicon_exKBSTeq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div></div><div class="RMsp RMd"></div></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/30px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi">Goods station</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div class="RM_"></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exvÜSTr"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/BSicon_exv%C3%9CSTr.svg/20px-BSicon_exv%C3%9CSTr.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/BSicon_exv%C3%9CSTr.svg/30px-BSicon_exv%C3%9CSTr.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/BSicon_exv%C3%9CSTr.svg/40px-BSicon_exv%C3%9CSTr.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RMd"></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WSHI1r"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/BSicon_WSHI1r.svg/20px-BSicon_WSHI1r.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/BSicon_WSHI1r.svg/30px-BSicon_WSHI1r.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/BSicon_WSHI1r.svg/40px-BSicon_WSHI1r.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div class="RMd"></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="dSTR"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/BSicon_dSTR.svg/10px-BSicon_dSTR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/BSicon_dSTR.svg/15px-BSicon_dSTR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/BSicon_dSTR.svg/20px-BSicon_dSTR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exdHST"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/BSicon_exdHST.svg/10px-BSicon_exdHST.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/BSicon_exdHST.svg/15px-BSicon_exdHST.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/BSicon_exdHST.svg/20px-BSicon_exdHST.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WSHI1+l"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/BSicon_WSHI1%2Bl.svg/20px-BSicon_WSHI1%2Bl.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/BSicon_WSHI1%2Bl.svg/30px-BSicon_WSHI1%2Bl.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/BSicon_WSHI1%2Bl.svg/40px-BSicon_WSHI1%2Bl.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Rochester_Common_railway_station" title="Rochester Common railway station">Rochester Common</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Rochester_railway_station" title="Rochester railway station">Rochester</a> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div class="RMd"></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="dHST"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/BSicon_dHST.svg/10px-BSicon_dHST.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/BSicon_dHST.svg/15px-BSicon_dHST.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/BSicon_dHST.svg/20px-BSicon_dHST.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="exdSTR"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/BSicon_exdSTR.svg/10px-BSicon_exdSTR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/BSicon_exdSTR.svg/15px-BSicon_exdSTR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/BSicon_exdSTR.svg/20px-BSicon_exdSTR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/30px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div class="RMd"></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="vSTR-exKHSTe"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/BSicon_vSTR-exKHSTe.svg/20px-BSicon_vSTR-exKHSTe.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/BSicon_vSTR-exKHSTe.svg/30px-BSicon_vSTR-exKHSTe.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/BSicon_vSTR-exKHSTe.svg/40px-BSicon_vSTR-exKHSTe.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSER"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/30px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BSicon_WASSER.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSER.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Chatham_Central_railway_station" title="Chatham Central railway station">Chatham Central</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249493202"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="RMsplit" style="text-align:inherit;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:105%">Fort Pitt Tunnel</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit;font-style:italic">428 yards (391 m)</td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div class="RMcd"></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="TUNNEL1"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_TUNNEL1.svg/20px-BSicon_TUNNEL1.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_TUNNEL1.svg/30px-BSicon_TUNNEL1.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/BSicon_TUNNEL1.svg/40px-BSicon_TUNNEL1.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RMc"></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="WASSERl"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/BSicon_WASSERl.svg/20px-BSicon_WASSERl.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/BSicon_WASSERl.svg/30px-BSicon_WASSERl.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/BSicon_WASSERl.svg/40px-BSicon_WASSERl.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="dWASSERq"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/BSicon_dWASSERq.svg/10px-BSicon_dWASSERq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/BSicon_dWASSERq.svg/15px-BSicon_dWASSERq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/BSicon_dWASSERq.svg/20px-BSicon_dWASSERq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><a href="/wiki/River_Medway" title="River Medway">River Medway</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="BHF"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/BSicon_BHF.svg/20px-BSicon_BHF.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/BSicon_BHF.svg/30px-BSicon_BHF.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/BSicon_BHF.svg/40px-BSicon_BHF.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RM_"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Chatham_railway_station,_Medway" class="mw-redirect" title="Chatham railway station, Medway">Chatham</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249493202"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="RMsplit" style="text-align:inherit;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:105%">Chatham Tunnel</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit;font-style:italic">297 yards (272 m)</td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="TUNNEL2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/BSicon_TUNNEL2.svg/20px-BSicon_TUNNEL2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/BSicon_TUNNEL2.svg/30px-BSicon_TUNNEL2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/BSicon_TUNNEL2.svg/40px-BSicon_TUNNEL2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RM_"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="TUNNEL2"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/BSicon_TUNNEL2.svg/20px-BSicon_TUNNEL2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/BSicon_TUNNEL2.svg/30px-BSicon_TUNNEL2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/BSicon_TUNNEL2.svg/40px-BSicon_TUNNEL2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RM_"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249493202"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="RMsplit" style="text-align:inherit;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:105%">Gillingham Tunnel</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit;font-style:italic">897 yards (820 m)</td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Gillingham_railway_station_(Kent)" title="Gillingham railway station (Kent)">Gillingham</a> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="BHF"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/BSicon_BHF.svg/20px-BSicon_BHF.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/BSicon_BHF.svg/30px-BSicon_BHF.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/BSicon_BHF.svg/40px-BSicon_BHF.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RM_"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="ABZg+l"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/BSicon_ABZg%2Bl.svg/20px-BSicon_ABZg%2Bl.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/BSicon_ABZg%2Bl.svg/30px-BSicon_ABZg%2Bl.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/BSicon_ABZg%2Bl.svg/40px-BSicon_ABZg%2Bl.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="CONTfq"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/BSicon_CONTfq.svg/20px-BSicon_CONTfq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/BSicon_CONTfq.svg/30px-BSicon_CONTfq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/BSicon_CONTfq.svg/40px-BSicon_CONTfq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><i>to <a href="/wiki/Chatham_Dockyard" title="Chatham Dockyard">Chatham Dockyard</a></i></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><a href="/wiki/Gillingham_EMU_depot" class="mw-redirect" title="Gillingham EMU depot">Gillingham EMU depot</a></div> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="vKBSTa-STR"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/BSicon_vKBSTa-STR.svg/20px-BSicon_vKBSTa-STR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/BSicon_vKBSTa-STR.svg/30px-BSicon_vKBSTa-STR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/BSicon_vKBSTa-STR.svg/40px-BSicon_vKBSTa-STR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RMd"></div><div class="RM_"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="v-SHI2g+r"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/BSicon_v-SHI2g%2Br.svg/20px-BSicon_v-SHI2g%2Br.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/BSicon_v-SHI2g%2Br.svg/30px-BSicon_v-SHI2g%2Br.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/BSicon_v-SHI2g%2Br.svg/40px-BSicon_v-SHI2g%2Br.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RMd"></div><div class="RM_"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="HST"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/20px-BSicon_HST.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/30px-BSicon_HST.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/BSicon_HST.svg/40px-BSicon_HST.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RM_"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Rainham_railway_station_(Kent)" title="Rainham railway station (Kent)">Rainham</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="RMl" colspan="2"> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td class="RMir"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="CONTf"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/BSicon_CONTf.svg/20px-BSicon_CONTf.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/BSicon_CONTf.svg/30px-BSicon_CONTf.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/BSicon_CONTf.svg/40px-BSicon_CONTf.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div><div class="RM_"></div> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td class="RMr" colspan="2"><div class="RMsi"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249493202"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="RMsplit" style="text-align:inherit;font-style:italic;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:105%"><a href="/wiki/Chatham_Main_Line" title="Chatham Main Line">Chatham Main Line</a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:inherit;padding:0;line-height:.9;font-size:inherit;font-style:italic">to <a href="/wiki/Dover_Priory_railway_station" title="Dover Priory railway station">Dover</a> & <a href="/wiki/Ramsgate_railway_station" title="Ramsgate railway station">Ramsgate</a></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:0 3px 0 0;"> </td> <td> </td> <td class="RMl1"> </td> <td> </td> <td class="RMr1"> </td> <td> </td> <td style="padding:0 0 0 3px;"> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Rochester_railway_station" title="Rochester railway station">Rochester railway station</a> is on the <a href="/wiki/Chatham_Main_Line" title="Chatham Main Line">Chatham Main Line</a> and the <a href="/wiki/North_Kent_Line" title="North Kent Line">North Kent Line</a>. High speed services to <a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station" title="St Pancras railway station">St Pancras</a> in London run via the North Kent Line with a junction east of <a href="/wiki/Ebbsfleet_International_railway_station" title="Ebbsfleet International railway station">Ebbsfleet International</a> giving a journey time of slightly under 40 minutes.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All railway services are provided by <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_(train_operating_company)" title="Southeastern (train operating company)">Southeastern</a>. </p> <dl><dt>Air</dt></dl> <p><a href="/wiki/Rochester_Airport_(Kent)" title="Rochester Airport (Kent)">Rochester Airport</a> began in September 1933 when Rochester City Council purchased some land as the site for a municipal <a href="/wiki/Airport" title="Airport">airport</a>. One month later the aircraft manufacturers <a href="/wiki/Short_Brothers" title="Short Brothers">Short Brothers</a> leased the land for test flying. By 1934–5 Short Brothers had taken over the site, and moved in some of their personnel from the existing <a href="/wiki/Seaplane" title="Seaplane">seaplane</a> works. The inaugural flight into Rochester was from <a href="/wiki/Gravesend,_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Gravesend, Kent">Gravesend</a>, John Parker flying the Short Brothers <a href="/wiki/Short_Scion" title="Short Scion">Short Scion</a> G-ACJI. </p><p>In 1979 the lease reverted to the City Council. After giving thorough consideration to closing the airport, <a href="/wiki/General_Electric_Company" title="General Electric Company">GEC</a> (then comprising <a href="/wiki/Marconi_Company" title="Marconi Company">Marconi</a> and instrument makers <a href="/wiki/Elliott_Brothers_(computer_company)" title="Elliott Brothers (computer company)">Elliot Automation</a>) decided to take over management of the airport. It maintained two grass <a href="/wiki/Runway" title="Runway">landing strips</a> while releasing some land for light industrial expansion. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rochester,_Kent&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMarsh1974" class="citation book cs1">Marsh, Ronald (1974). <i>Rochester: the evolution of the city and its government</i>. Rochester: Rochester City Council. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0904317005" title="Special:BookSources/0904317005"><bdi>0904317005</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rochester%3A+the+evolution+of+the+city+and+its+government&rft.place=Rochester&rft.pub=Rochester+City+Council&rft.date=1974&rft.isbn=0904317005&rft.aulast=Marsh&rft.aufirst=Ronald&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARochester%2C+Kent" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith1928" class="citation book cs1">Smith, F. F. (1928). <i>A History of Rochester</i>. London: C. W. 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