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It has car parks and a visitor centre with a cafe, toilets and information point. The park has accessible viewpoints over the North Kent Marshes beside the River Medway. The Saxon Shore Way (long distance path) leads along the coast through the park, between Upchurch and Gillingham. [12] National Cycle Route 1 follows the Saxon Shore Way ...
In medieval times the part of Gillingham known as Grange was a limb of the Cinque Ports [12] and the maritime importance of the area continued until the late 1940s. Indeed, a large part of Chatham Dockyard lay within Gillingham, and when it was closed in 1984, two-thirds of the then modern-day dockyard lay within the boundaries of Gillingham.
Ashford Borough Museum ; Chatham Historic Dockyard; Dolphin Yard Sailing Barge Museum ; Dover Museum; Kent Battle of Britain Museum; Kent International Airport (formerly known as London Manston Airport) with two aviation museums
Dedication plaque 'The Great Lines, which lie before you is the area of land reserved since the 18th Century as the line of fire of the Cannon defending Chatham Naval Dockyard. In 1989, the land was acquired by Gillingham Borough Council for the future amenity and enjoyment of local people. Unveiled 15 March 1989.'
Centurion AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) The 'Ravelin Building', which was designed by Major E.C.S. Moore, Royal Engineers and was completed in 1905 at a cost £40,000, [1] was originally used as electrical engineers' school before becoming the home of the museum in 1987. [2]
Darland Banks is a 29.1-hectare (72-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the southern outskirts of Gillingham in Kent. It is owned by Medway Council and managed by Kent Wildlife Trust. [1] [2] [3] This area of grassland, scrub and woodland has diverse fauna and flora, including the largest population of man orchids in Britain.
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Medway is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Kent in South East England.It was formed in 1998 by merging the boroughs of Rochester-upon-Medway and Gillingham, and is administered by Medway Council, which is independent from Kent County Council.