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Location map Magic Map Medway Estuary and Marshes is a 4,748.8-hectare (11,735-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the banks of the River Medway between Gillingham and Sheerness in Kent .
Deadman's Island is a small island in the estuary of the River Medway in Kent, United Kingdom close to where The Swale flows into the Medway. It is a flat, raised area of marshland around 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) long and 200 metres (660 ft) wide among the tidal sand banks on the southern side of the estuary and separated from the British mainland of Chetney Marshes by a narrow channel known as ...
Burntwick Island is an island in the estuary of the River Medway in Kent, United Kingdom.It is a flat, raised area of marshland around 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) long and 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) wide among the tidal sand banks on the southern side of the estuary and separated from the British mainland of Chetney Marshes by a narrow channel known as Stangate Creek.
South Thames Estuary and Marshes is a 5,289-hectare (13,070-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches between Gravesend and the mouth of the River Medway in Kent. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Part of it is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, [ 3 ] and part is a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve. [ 4 ]
The Medway's 'marriage' to the Thames is given extensive treatment by Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in the 16th century (Book IV, Canto xi). Joseph Conrad describes the view up the Medway from the Thames Estuary in The Mirror of the Sea (1906). For the 1999 film The Mummy the river was filmed at Chatham Dockyard, in an imitation of a "port ...
Big Island: Carsington Water: Bird Island: Stocks Reservoir, Lancashire [2] Bridgemarsh Island: River Crouch, Essex: Denny Island: Chew Valley Lake: Flat Island: Carsington Water: Haddiscoe Island (or Chedgrave Island or simply 'The Island') Between River Waveney, River Yare and New Cut [3] Horseshoe Island: Carsington Water: Lady Island ...
St Mary's Island, is part of the Chatham Maritime development area in Medway, South East England. [1] 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 ...
Like most of Medway, the fertile area was then a major site of hops, cherries, plums and apple orchards and wheat fields. In 1819, Motney Hill appears on maps as an island, because of its large sand deposits it was also known as 'Gritty Island'. The chalk came from a large pit, now known as Berengrave Local Nature Reserve [2]