Isle of Grain

The project was not a success and the ferry service was withdrawn in 1901, and the pier fell into disuse. It was closed in 1951, and the 1.75 miles of line taken up. The site is now occupied by the industrial sprawl. From about 1912 a seaplane station was positioned at Grain by the Admiralty. From the beginning of World War I regular patrols were made along the Thames estuary from this station, as part of English channel defences. In 1914 Port Victoria became an Royal Navy air plane repair depot, adjacent to the station. Activities at ...

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The word grain has several meanings, most being descriptive of a small piece or particle. Grain - Particle-related. The primary definition is the agricultural one, with the others derived from it. In agriculture, a grain is the seed of a grass, a simple dry fruit technically called a caryopsis. Such crops are often called cereals. Grain can also refer to other types of small seeds, though this is technically less correct. In units of measurement, the grain is a un ...

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The Medway area has a long and varied history dominated originally by the city of Rochester and later by the naval and military establishments principally in Chatham and Gilllingham. Rochester was established by the Romans, who called it Durobrivae (meaning 'stronghold by the bridge'), on an Iron Age site to control the point where Watling Street (now the A2) crossed the River Medway. The first cathedral was buillt by Bishop Justus in 604 and was rebuilt under the Normans by Bishop Gundulf, who also built the castle which stands opposite the cathedral. Rochester became Medway's first walled town. Under later Saxon infl ...

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The major tributaries are: River Eden River Shode River Teise River Beult River Loose River Len see Rivers of Kent The river and its tributaries flow through largely rural areas, Tonbridge, Maidstone and the Medway Towns being the exceptions. The Medway itself initially flows in a west-east direction south of the North Downs; at the confluence of the River Beult, however, it turns northerly and breaks through the North Downs at the Medway Gap, a steep and narrow valley near Roc ...

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Hoo Peninsula - The marshlands. The marshlands are now part of two protected areas of land: the Thames Estuary and Marshlands and the Medway Estuary and Marshes. The Thames Estuary area covers the 15 miles (24 km) from Gravesend to the Isle of Grain; the Medway area 15 miles (24 km) from Rochester to the Isle of Grain: a total of 38 square miles (98 km²) of marshlands. Both are considered as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Protected Areas (SPA). They include coastal grazing marsh, intertidal mudflats, saltmarsh and lagoons. On the line of hills lies th ...

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Kent - Man of Kent or Kentish Man?. Kent is traditionally divided into West Kent and East Kent by the River Medway. This division into east and west is also reflected in the term Men of Kent for residents east of the Medway; those from west are known as Kentish Men. However, further investigation shows that the division is not the Medway, but further east in Gillingham. Edward Hasted, in his 1798 description of Rainham, writes: "The whole of this parish is in the division of East Kent which begins here, the adjoining parish of Gillingham, w ...

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List of places in London - Inner London boroughs. City of Westminster Camden Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Islington Kensington and Chelsea Lambeth Lewisham Southwark Tower Hamlets Wandsworth List of places in London - Outer London boroughs. Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Croydon Ealing Enfield Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Kingston upon Thames Merton Newham ...

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From over 600,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene ice age, until the Anglian glaciation around 475,000 years ago, the early River Thames flowed from Wales to Clacton-on-Sea, and crossed what is now the North Sea to become a tributary of the Rhine. The river followed a path through Buckinghamshire, the southern part of Hertfordshire and Essex, running from the area of modern Staines up the valley of the Colne to Hatfield and then eastward across Essex towards the primeval Rhine. It was later diverted by encroaching ice down ...

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List of islands of England - Offshore and inshore islands. List of islands of England - Lake and river islands. Eel Pie Island, River Thames Belle Isle, Windermere Read's Island, River Humber See also Islands in the River Thames ...

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Many books refer to the Thames. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome describes a boat trip up the Thames, as does Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog. Somewhere near the Oxford stretch is where the Liddells were rowing in the poem at the start of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The river is mentioned in both The Wind in the Willows and the play Toad of Toad Hall. The utopian News from Nowhere is mainly the account of a journey throu ...

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The River Thames is crossed by many bridges and tunnels. Famous crossings of the Thames include: Dartford Crossing Thames Barrier Blackwall Tunnel Rotherhithe Tunnel Thames Tunnel Tower Bridge London Bridge Millennium Bridge Hungerford Bridge Westminster Bridge Maidenhead Railway Bridge Marlow Bridge See Crossings of the Rive ...

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The River Thames is navigable from the estuary as far as Halfpenny Bridge at Lechlade. Between the sea and Teddington Lock, the river forms part of the Port of London and navigation is administered by the Port of London Authority. From Teddington Lock to the head of navigation, the navigation authority is the Environment Agency. The river is navigable to large ocean-going ships as far as the Pool of London and London Bridge. Today little commercial traffic passes above the docks at Tilbury, and central London sees only the occasional ...

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The Romans have been credited with the first two attempts at building a sea wall. The subsequent draining of the marshes had a two-fold benefit in that pastureland was created which supported sheep; and the local malaria-bearing mosquitoes were deprived of their breeding grounds. The area is rich in archaeology. Bronze Age implements and Jutish cemeteries have been found on the peninsula, and Roman pottery at Cooling. It was once the point of departure across the ancient Saxon ford ...

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The area has been occupied since the Lower Palaeolithic as finds from the quarries at Swanscombe attest. During the Neolithic the Medway megaliths were built and there is a rich sequence of Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman occupation indicated by finds and features such as the Ringlemere gold cup and the Roman villas of the Darent valley. The modern name Kent is derived from the Brythonic word Cantus meaning a rim or border, being applied as a name to the eastern part of the modern county, and meaning border land or coas ...

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Until 1963 the lowest crossing of the Medway was at Rochester; the next, 12 miles (19km) upstream, was the 14th Century bridge at Aylesford. Since then the following additional crossings have come into use: 1963: the first section of the M2 motorway, was built. This included a viaduct over the river south of Rochester, which has been widened to two separate spans in 2003. 1996: the river's lowest crossing is the Medway Tunnel connecting Gillingham to Strood. The four-lane tunnel was constructed using the immersed tube m ...

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Until 1746 the river was impassable above Maidstone. To that point each village on the river had its wharf or wharves: at Halling, Snodland, New Hythe and Aylesford. Cargoes included corn, fodder, fruit, stone and timber. In 1746 improvements to the channel meant that barges of 40 tons (41000kg) could reach East Farleigh, Yalding and even Tonbridge. In 1828 the channel was further improved to Leigh in 1828. There are eight locks on the river. The lowest, opened in 1792, is at Allington, and is the extent of tides. The others are Farleigh, Teston, Hampstead Lane, East Loc ...

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The river's catchment area may be divided between the non-tidal and tidal (see below) sections: The non-tidal section: Here there are innumerable brooks, streams and rivers within an area of 9948 square km (3841 square miles), and combine to form 38 main tributaries feeding the Thames between its source and Teddington. These include the rivers Churn, Leach, Cole, Coln, Windrush, Evenlode, Cherwell, Ock, Thame, Pang, Kennet, Loddon, Colne, Wey and Mole. More than half the rain that falls on ...

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Famous islands in the Thames include: Isle of Sheppey Canvey Island Isle of Grain Eel Pie Island, Twickenham Magna Carta Island, Runnymede Fry's Island, Reading (sometimes known as De Montfort Island) See Islands in the River Thames for a full list of all islands. ...

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The river's name appears always to have been pronounced with a simple "t" at the beginning; the Middle English spelling was typically Temese and Latin Tamesis. The "th" lends an air of Greek to the name and was added during the Renaissance, possibly to reflect or support a belief that the name was derived from River Thyamis in the Epirus region of Greece, whence early Celtic tribes are thought to have migrated. However, most scholars now believe Temese and Tamesis come from Celtic (Brythonic) See also:

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