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List Of Schools In Medway
This is a list of schools in Medway, in the English county of Kent. State-funded schools Primary schools *All Faiths' Children's Academy, Strood *All Saints CE Primary School, Chatham *Balfour Infant School, Rochester *Balfour Junior School, Chatham *Barnsole Primary School, Gillingham *Bligh Infant school Strood *Bligh Junior School, Strood *Brompton-Westbrook Primary School, Brompton *Burnt Oak Primary School, Gillingham *Byron Primary School, Gillingham *Cedar Children's Academy, Strood *Chattenden Primary School, Chattenden *Cliffe Woods Primary School, Cliffe Woods *Crest Infant School, Rochester *Cuxton Community Infant School, Cuxton *Cuxton Community Junior School, Cuxton *Deanwood Primary School, Park Wood *Delce Academy, Rochester *Elaine Primary School, Strood *English Martyrs RC Primary School, Strood *Fairview Community Primary School, Wigmore *Featherby Infant and Nursery School, Gillingham *Featherby Junior School, Gillingham *Gordon Infant Children's A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medway
Medway is a unitary authority district and conurbation in Kent, South East England. It had a population of 278,016 in 2019. The unitary authority was formed in 1998 when Rochester-upon-Medway amalgamated with the Borough of Gillingham to form Medway Towns. It is now a unitary authority area run by Medway Council, independent of Kent County Council but still part of the ceremonial county of Kent. Medway is one of the boroughs included in the Thames Gateway development scheme. It is also the home of Universities at Medway, a tri-partite collaboration of the University of Greenwich, the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University on a single campus in Chatham, together with the University for the Creative Arts, which has a campus in Rochester. Geography Because of its strategic location by the major crossing of the River Medway, it has made a wide and significant contribution to Kent, and to England, dating back thousands of years, as evident in the siting of Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Halstow
High Halstow is a village and civil parish on the Hoo Peninsula in the unitary authority of Medway in South East England. It was, until 1998, administratively part of Kent and is still ceremonially associated via the Lieutenancies Act. The parish had a population of 1,781 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 1,807 at the 2011 census. Originally known as ''Hagelstowe'' (in Textus Roffensis), ''Hagelsto'' or ''Agelstow'', it was named from an Old English word denoting a high, holy place. The area has been occupied by Romans, Saxons and Normans. The village lies on the junction of the ancient roads from Hoo and Cliffe to the Isle of Grain, now a crossroads to the north of the A228 road. One of the highest points on the Hoo peninsula, at 30 to 50 metres above sea level, the modern village consolidates into a single community the four hamlets of Clinch Street, Fenn Street, Sharnal Street and High Halstow Street. History The 10th-century Grade I listed church of St Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brompton Academy
Brompton Academy is an 11–18 mixed, secondary school and sixth form with academy status in Gillingham, Kent, England. It is part of the University of Kent Academies Trust. History Brompton Academy was originally called The Great Lines School. It was built in the 1950s adjacent to the Great Lines, in Gillingham. Gillingham was a military town that supported the Royal Engineers and their barracks and the Chatham Naval Dockyard. As a consequence families would be very fluid. It opened with 270 pupils in April 1957, as a secondary modern school and the first co-educational school in Gillingham. In June 1959, it became Upbury Manor school and was officially re-opened by actress Dame Edith Evans O.B.E. University of Kent Academies Trust It later became New Brompton College and is now known as Brompton Academy. The Brompton Academy opened in 2010. The University of Kent is a 'Lead Sponsor' of the Academy, because of its ability to help provide support for the Academy's sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wainscott, Kent
Wainscott is a small village in Rochester, in Kent, England. It is in the civil parish of Frindsbury Extra, in the Medway Unitary Authority, that is Medway Council. By 1950 it had been absorbed into the neighbouring residential areas of Strood. Wainscott itself is located immediately next to Frindsbury, and is surrounded by agricultural land and ancient woodlands. It is speculated that the name is derived from the OE meaning ''Wagonner Cot'' or ''Wagon Shed''.The Place Names of Kent, Judith Glover, 1976, Batsford. History Archaeological excavations in 2007 on the north-eastern edge of Wainscott revealed evidence for human activity dating from the early prehistoric through to the post-medieval period, and provided important new evidence for Bronze Age, Romano-British and Saxon settlements. Two Roman enclosures existed, one of which aligned with a metaled road with ditches on either side; coins also proved occupation during the Romano-British period, but after that there seems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mary's Island, Kent
St Mary's Island, is part of the Chatham Maritime development area in Medway, South East England. It is located at the northern end of Chatham, adjacent to Brompton and Gillingham. Once part of the Royal Dockyard, Chatham, the area had consisted of a mixture of sports fields and warehousing during the later years of the Royal Navy's time in occupation. St.Mary's Island is divided from mainland Chatham by three basins used by the dockyard. History The Romans were the first people to use the Island. They constructed a road through the marshy swamp criss-crossed by tidal channels land, and established a ferry route from the Island to the Hoo Peninsula. The ferry was named 'Prince's Bridge' on early maps, it was used until the final years of the last century.http://www.stmarysisland.uk.com/island-living/the-concept/history The 3 dockyard basins are sited on St Mary's Creek, which passed from the River Medway, near Gillingham to the River Medway (again) near Chatham. In 1575, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Of Grain
Isle of Grain (Old English ''Greon'', meaning gravel) is a village and the easternmost point of the Hoo Peninsula within the district of Medway in Kent, south-east England. No longer an island and now forming part of the peninsula, the area is almost all marshland and is a major habitat for diverse wetland birds. The village constitutes a civil parish, which at the 2011 census had a population of 1,648, a net decrease of 83 people in 10 years. History Extract from the ''Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland'' by John Gorton, 1833: "GRAINE, ISLE OF, co. Kent'' "A parish in the Hundred of Hoo, lathe of Aylesford, opposite to Sheppey at the mouth of the Thames; it is about three miles and a half long, and two and a half broad and is formed by Yantlet Creek running from the Medway to the Thames. The Creek was filled up, and had a road across it for 40 years until 1823, when the Lord Mayor ordered it to be again reopened, so as to give about eight feet naviga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliffe-at-Hoo
Cliffe is a village on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, England, reached from the Medway Towns by a three-mile (4.8 km) journey along the B2000 road. Situated upon a low chalk escarpment overlooking the Thames marshes, Cliffe offers views of Southend-on-Sea and London. It forms part of the parish of Cliffe and Cliffe Woods in the borough of Medway. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Cliffe and Cliffe Woods. In 774 Offa, King of Mercia, built a rustic wooden church dedicated to St Helen, a popular Mercian saint who was by legend the daughter of Coel ("Old King Cole") of Colchester. Cliffe is cited in early records as having been called ''Clive'' and ''Cliffe-at-Hoo''. Ancient Saxon town Clovesho, or Clofeshoch, was an ancient Saxon town, in Mercia and near London, where the Anglo-Saxon Church is recorded as holding the important Councils of Clovesho between 742 and 825. These had representation from the archbishopric of Canterbury and the whole Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borstal, Rochester
Borstal is a place in the Medway unitary authority of Kent in South East England. Originally a village near Rochester, it has become absorbed by the expansion of Rochester. The youth prison at Borstal gave its name to the Borstal reform school system. History Its name came from Anglo-Saxon ''burg-steall'' "fort site" or "place of refuge",The Place Names of Kent, Judith Glover, 1976, Batsford. likely referring to the hill there. The hill is now the home to Fort Borstal. However, local resident Donald Maxwell argued that a 'borstal' was "a track up a chalk hill", claiming to have heard local farmers use the term in this way. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Borchetelle, and then consisted of a 50-acre meadow, six households and two watermills. By 1769 this riverside farm was called Bostle, and probably had been joined by a wayside inn called the White Horse on the valley road above. In about 1830 Borstal House was built near the farm, and at the time of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoke, Kent
Stoke is a civil parish on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, England, to the south of Allhallows, on the north of the Medway Estuary. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,063, reducing marginally to 1,060 at the 2011 census. The two small villages of Lower Stoke and Stoke (sometimes referred to as Upper Stoke) stand on low-lying fertile farmland that is at most 17 m above highwater. The farmland descends to the Stoke Saltings – a maze of intricate channels and small islands beloved by wading birds. The church of Saints Peter and Paul is in Stoke; it was an appendage to the Manor of Great Hoo. The building contains some Norman and Early English work dating from 1175. It has no spire.Brian Matthews, the History of Strood Rural District, 1971, Strood Rural District Council In an Anglo-Saxon charter Stoke is referred to as "Andescohesham". It was passed with other lands by Eadberht, son of King Wihtred of Kent to the See of Rochester for "the good of his soul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainham, Kent
Rainham ( ) is a town in the unitary authority of Medway, in Kent, South East England. The town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns Chatham, Rochester, Strood and Gillingham. Historically, Rainham was a separate village until, in 1928, it was added to the Municipal Borough of Gillingham, which was originally created in 1903 and was grouped into the latter's built-up area in analysis of the 2011 census by the Office for National Statistics. It became part of the Medway authority when Gillingham was incorporated with the other towns to form Medway Unitary Authority in 1998. Geography Rainham occupies a large stretch of land from the dip slope of a moderate rise of the North Downs of about above sea level, descending to a frontage on the River Medway's natural harbour to the north. London is approximately to the west. Three roads cross the town. The M2 motorway runs along its southern edge, from the town centre. The main road through the town, the A2, follows the an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lordswood, Kent
Lordswood is a southern suburb of Chatham, Kent, located approximately 3 miles south of Chatham town centre. It is primarily in Medway but a small southern section is in the Borough of Maidstone The Borough of Maidstone is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England. Its administrative centre is Maidstone, the county town of Kent. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Municipal Borough of M .... Lordswood possesses pockets of woodland, a high street and a health centre,NHS Kent Community Health https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk/location/lordswood-healthy-living-centre/ with good access routes to the motorway. Sport and leisure Lordswood has a Non-League football club Lordswood F.C., which play at Martyn Grove. Lordswood leisure centre is located close to The Martin Grove woodland and has a function suite named after the area. References External links Lordswood Leisure CentreLordswood Library Medway {{kent-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walderslade
Walderslade is a large suburb in Kent to the south of Chatham split between the unitary authority of Medway and the boroughs of Maidstone and Tonbridge & Malling in South East England. It was, until 1998, fully part of Kent and is still ceremonially associated via the Lieutenancies Act. It encompasses almost all the ME5 postcode district (except parts of Luton). Walderslade was formerly a small rural village nestled in the valleys of the North Downs, however development accelerated with the expansion of towns in Medway after the First World War. The urban area developed quickly after the Second World War leading to the current make-up of several large estates surrounding the original village, which is the local centre of commerce. Walderslade comprises several named areas, notably the Davis Estate (near Rochester Airport), Wayfield, Weeds Wood, Walderslade Woods, Princes Avenue and Lordswood. History An important Bronze Age hoard was found in Walderslade in 1965 during hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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