A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Medway, river, partly in Surrey and Sussex, but chiefly in Kent; rises in 2 headstreams in Sussex and 1 in Surrey, and flows NE. past Maidstone and Rochester (where it becomes estuarial) to the mouth of the Thames; is 70 miles long, including 12 miles of estuary; has a tidal rise of 26 ft. at Rochester, and is much used for navigation up to Maidstone, where it is from 12 to 15 ft. deep, a depth which it retains almost as far as Tunbridge.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Kent AncC Surrey AncC Sussex AncC |
| Place: | Medway |
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