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On creation in 1974 the new Medway Borough Council applied to inherit the city status of Rochester, but this was refused. [6] Instead, special letters patent were granted on 18 March 1974, which declared that the existing area would continue to constitute the City of Rochester, notwithstanding its abolition as a local government authority.
Medway Archives holds the archives for Rochester upon Medway City Council and its predecessor authorities. The archives are held at the Civic Centre, Strood, Rochester , and run by Medway Council . [ 1 ]
The area of the former City of Rochester was permitted to continue styling itself City under letters patent. In 1979 the borough council passed a resolution renaming itself as the Borough of Rochester-upon-Medway. In 1982 further letters patent extended city status to the whole borough making it the City of Rochester-upon-Medway.
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 Gillingham. Rochester was established on an Iron Age site by the Romans , [ 4 ] who called it Durobrivae (meaning "stronghold by the bridge"), to control the point where ...
The Home Office said that the city status may be extended to the entire borough if it had "Rochester" in its name, so in 1979, Medway Borough Council renamed the borough to the Borough of Rochester-upon-Medway, and in 1982, Rochester's city status was transferred to the entire borough by letters patent, with the district being called the City ...
1973 Medway Borough Council election; 1976 Medway Borough Council election; 1979 Medway Borough Council election (New ward boundaries) [6] 1983 Rochester-upon-Medway City Council election; 1987 Rochester-upon-Medway City Council election; 1991 Rochester-upon-Medway City Council election; 1995 Rochester-upon-Medway City Council election
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Chatham lost its independence as a borough under the Local Government Act 1972, by which, on 1 April 1974, it became part of the Borough of Medway, a non-metropolitan district of the county of Kent; under subsequent renaming the borough became the Borough of Rochester-upon-Medway (1979); and, from 1982, the City of Rochester-upon-Medway.