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Touring Strood
The district Strood of in Kent (England) with it's 33,381 residents Strood is a subburb located in United Kingdom about 27 mi east of London, the country's capital place.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 10°C / 49 °F
Morning Temperature | 7°C / 45 °F |
Evening Temperature | 8°C / 46 °F |
Night Temperature | 6°C / 42 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 76% |
Air Pressure | 1028 hPa |
Wind Speed | Light breeze with 4 km/h (3 mph) from North-East |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 91% of sky |
General Conditions | Overcast clouds |
Saturday, 16th of November 2024
9°C (48 °F)
9°C (48 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 17th of November 2024
9°C (47 °F)
4°C (40 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, broken clouds.
Monday, 18th of November 2024
10°C (50 °F)
11°C (52 °F)
Moderate rain, fresh breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
BRIDGEWOOD MANOR - QHOTELS
Inn on the Lake
Holiday Inn ROCHESTER - CHATHAM
TRAVELODGE CHATHAM MARITIME
Chatham/Gillingham (Vic Pier)
Videos from this area
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Rochester to Strood, views over the Medway from a Javelin, Kent, England - 3rd June, 2014
This short film shows Northerly views from a London bound Javelin train as it makes the very short journey across the Medway Estuary from Rochester to Strood across the historic Rochester Bridge.
The Medway at Rochester.mp4
The River Medway, Rochester, Kent, England on Good Friday 6th April 2012. The 100th Anniversary of the day that Percy Gordon drowned while rescuing a girl who had fallen into the river. Some...
Rochester | Light To Dusk
Went to Broom Hill in Strood today (24/09/14) with my best friend Rebecca Garwood :D It's a gorgeous view and was experimenting with my camera :) Love the effect of it going from light to dusk...
SWC Free walk 173, Cuxton to Snodland. 7/4/13.
This is a pleasant 12 miler through some varied Kent countryside. Setting out from the station, the walker is soon walking past Cuxton church and ascending into a local nature reserve. Then,...
Eurostar racing the cars over the Medway River, Kent
Short video from the window of our Eurostar train as it runs alongside the M2 over the Medway River in Kent, England. I clocked the train travelling at 180MPH using a speedometre app on my...
Driving In the UK on the M2
My Father seems to think that everyone here drives little cars and that the UK doesn't have roads like our Interstates... C'mon dad... this is the country that spawned us!
Trailscape Rail to Trail series, Cuxton, Kent, 29 November 2014
The event was the 2nd of 4 trail running races organised by Trailscape (http://www.trailscape.co.uk) in the countryside around London. Each starts close to a railway station to ease environmentall...
South Eastern - Series 2 (final part - pt5)
In this the final part of this series, we take a look at comings & goings at Medway Viaduct. This is one of the major features of UK's HS1 (high speed line 1). Here the line crossing the river...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Thames and Medway Canal
The Thames and Medway Canal is a disused canal in Kent, south east England, also known as the Gravesend and Rochester Canal. It was originally some 11 km long and cut across the neck of the Hoo peninsula, linking the River Thames at Gravesend with the River Medway at Strood.
Fort Borstal
Fort Borstal was built as an afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, by convict labour between 1875 and 1885, to hold the high ground southwest of Rochester, South East England. It is of polygonal design and was never originally armed. An anti-aircraft battery was based there in the Second World War.
Fort Clarence
Fort Clarence is a now defunct fortification that was located in Rochester, Kent, England.
A229 road
The A229 is a major road running north-south through Kent. The road begins in the Medway town of Rochester at the foot of Star Hill forming a junction with the A2 road. It then climbs up through the built-up area of Chatham, passing Troy Town and Rochester Airport before descending the slope of the North Downs at Blue Bell Hill. As it reaches the summit of the climb there is the first of two complicated series of junctions, this with the M2 motorway.
Diocese of Rochester
The Diocese of Rochester is a Church of England diocese in South-East England and forms part of the Province of Canterbury. It is an ancient diocese, having been established in 604; only the neighbouring Diocese of Canterbury is older in the Church of England.
Diggerland
Diggerland is the name of four theme parks in England based around the theme of diggers and JCBs. Diggerland is owned by the excavator hire firm H.E. Services. There are four park locations in the UK, in Strood, Kent; Verbeer Manor, Cullompton, Devon; Langley Park, County Durham, and Castleford, West Yorkshire.
Strood Rural District
Strood Rural District was a rural district in the county of Kent, England. It was subject to boundary reforms in 1934 and 1935.
Restoration House
Restoration House in Rochester, Medway, South East England, is a fine example of an Elizabethan mansion. It is so named after the visit of King Charles II on the eve of his restoration. Charles had landed in Dover on 25 May 1660 and by the evening of the 28th arrived in Rochester. He was received by the Mayor and eventually retired for the night to the home of Colonel Gibbon. The following day Charles continued to London and was proclaimed King on 29 May, his 30th birthday.
Rochester and Strood (UK Parliament constituency)
Rochester and Strood is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Mark Reckless, a Conservative.
City of Rochester-upon-Medway
Rochester-upon-Medway was a local government district in north Kent, England from 1974 to 1998. The district was formed as the District of Medway under the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974, as a merger of the municipal borough and city of Rochester, the borough of Chatham and most of Strood Rural District. The district council was granted a charter entitling it to be known as the Borough of Medway, and preserving the mayoralties of Rochester and Chatham.
Rochester (UK Parliament constituency)
Rochester was a parliamentary constituency in Kent. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England from 1295 to 1707, then to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800, and finally to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until the 1885 general election, when its representation was reduced to one seat. In 1918, it was split between Chatham, Gillingham and the "old", rural, Medway constituency.
Medway Viaducts
There are three Medway Viaducts, two of which carry the two carriageways of the M2 motorway. The other viaduct carries High Speed 1 across the River Medway near Rochester in north Kent, England.
Rochester Bridge
Rochester Bridge in Rochester, Medway was for centuries the lowest fixed crossing of the River Medway in South East England. There have been several generations of bridge at this spot, and the current "bridge" is in fact four separate bridges: two carrying the A2 road, one carrying the railway and one carrying all the service pipes and cables. The bridge links the towns of Strood and Rochester in Medway.
Gads Hill Place
Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent, sometimes spelt Gadshill Place and Gad's Hill Place, was the country home of Charles Dickens, the most successful British author of the Victorian era. Today the building is the independent Gad's Hill School. The house was built in 1780 for a former Mayor of Rochester, Thomas Stephens, opposite the present Sir John Falstaff Public House. Gad's Hill is where Falstaff commits the robbery that begins Shakespeare's Henriad trilogy.
Ranscombe Farm
Ranscombe Farm, in Cuxton in North Kent, is a Plantlife Nature Reserve, country park and working farm. Part of the site is included in the Cobham Woods Site of Special Scientific Interest, and the whole farm is within the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Ranscombe Farm Reserve works in partnership with five other sites in the local area. They are Shorne Wood Country Park, Jeskyns, Cobham Park, Ashenbank Wood and the Cobham Leisure Plots.
Shipbuilding in Frindsbury
Frindsbury TQ744697 {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord}}{{#coordinates:51.399423|0.508127||||||| | |name= }} is a parish on the River Medway, on the opposite bank to Chatham Dockyard in Kent, England. It was a centre of ship building before 1820, building at least six 74 gun third rate, ships of the line and many smaller vessels. From 1820, until recent times, the ship yards built over 100 Thames sailing barges. Shipbuilding has stopped but in 2006, one yard was still active in ship repair.
Richard Watts
Richard Watts (1529–1579) was a successful businessman and MP for Rochester, Kent in the 1570s. He supplied rations for the English Navy as deputy victualler and supervised the construction of Upnor Castle. Famed locally for his philanthropy, he died on 10 September 1579, leaving money in his will to establish the Richard Watts Charity and Six Poor Travellers House in Rochester High Street. He is buried, in accordance with his will, in Rochester Cathedral.
HM Prison Rochester
HM Prison Rochester (formerly known as Borstal Prison) is a male Young Offenders Institution, located in the Borstal area of Rochester in Kent, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service, and is located next to HMP Cookham Wood.
Rochester Common railway station
Rochester Common was a station on the Chatham Extension from Strood serving the town of Rochester. The station was opened by the South Eastern Railway which merged with the London, Chatham and Dover Railway to form the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1899.
Rochester Bridge railway station
Rochester Bridge railway station served Rochester and Strood in Kent, England. It was opened as Strood by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway in 1860. After several name changes and the merger of the LC&DR into the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, it closed as Rochester Bridge in 1917.
Strood (1st) railway station
Strood (1st) (locally known as and marked on old maps as The Old Terminus) was a terminus of the South Eastern Railway located in Strood and serving also the towns of Chatham and Rochester. It closed for passengers in 1856 when the present Strood station was opened. The site was then used as a sidings yard until around 1990 . It is now occupied by housing development and industrial units.
Six Poor Travellers House
Six Poor Travellers House is a 16th-century charity house in Rochester, Medway, founded by the local MP Richard Watts to provide free lodgings for poor travellers. Watts left money in his will for the benefit of six poor travellers, each of whom, according to a plaque on the outside of the building, would be given lodging and "entertainment" for one night before being sent on his way with fourpence.
Rochester Guildhall
The Guildhall is an historic listed building located in Rochester, Medway, South East England. It was constructed in 1697 and has been part of the Guildhall Museum since 1979. (The museum extends to the building next door, built 1909. ) A notable feature is a weathervane dating from 1780 in the form of an 18th century warship. The Guildhall Chamber is said to feature in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and the museum includes a room dedicated to the author.
Rochester Castle
Rochester Castle stands on the east bank of the River Medway in Rochester, Kent, South East England. The 12th-century keep or stone tower, which is the castle's most prominent feature, is one of the best preserved in England or France. Located along the River Medway and Watling Street, Rochester was a strategically important royal castle. During the late medieval period it helped protect England's south-east coast from invasion.
Rochester United F.C
Rochester United F.C. is an English football club located in Strood, in Kent. The club are members of the Kent League and play at the Rochester United Sports Ground.