Town Profile


The Medway factfile:


 It’s almost entirely in Kent and flows for 70 miles from just inside the West Sussex border to the point where it enters the Thames Estuary


 It has a catchment area of 930 square miles – the largest in southern England


 Improvements made in the 1730s enabled barges in excess of 35 tons to navigate all the way past Yalding and even into Tonbridge.


 Its middle section, above Tonbridge, is prone to flooding because of the number of tributaries entering the river


 In 1942 the world's first test of a submarine oil pipeline was conducted across the Medway in Operation Pluto.


16 Mid Kent Living


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