River Medway
| River Medway | ||
 Rivers in Kent, with the River Medway. |
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| location | South East England | |
| River system | Thames | |
| source | west of Turners Hill in Miswell Wood 51 ° 6 ′ 25 ″ N , 0 ° 5 ′ 37 ″ W |
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| muzzle | at Sheerness in the estuary of the Thames Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 54 " N , 0 ° 44 ′ 26" E 51 ° 26 ′ 54 " N , 0 ° 44 ′ 26" E
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| length | 112 km | |
| Left tributaries | River Eden , River Bourne | |
| Right tributaries | River Teise , River Beult , River Len | |
 The Medway Navigation at Yalding, 15 miles south of Allington. Here in Yalding the bulge and the Teise flow into the Medway. |
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The River Medway is a 112 km long river in south east England . It flows northeast from Turners Hill in West Sussex through Tonbridge to Maidstone , then turns sharply northwest and then flows north to Rochester in Kent before emptying into the Thames estuary .
The area is the location of the small group of so-called Medway chambered tombs , a variety of megalithic systems or "Stone chambers" that is only found in Derbyshire and Kent. Among them, the best known are Kit's Coty House at Aylesford and Chestnuts long barrow at Addington.
The river was initially only navigable as far as Tonbridge, until a canal was built to Leigh in 1828. Small boats such as B. Canoes may occasionally go as far as Penshurst. The 19 miles from Leigh to Allington is called the Medway Navigation . The Medway flows into the Thames Estuary at Garrison Point, between the Isle of Sheppey and the Isle of Grain .
The River Medway divides Kent in two. In the past, the western part ( West Kent ) was administered from Maidstone; the inhabitants were called Kentishmen . The eastern part ( East Kent) was administered from Canterbury , the inhabitants were known as the Men of Kent . The two parts were united in 1814 to the county of Kent, whose administrative seat is Maidstone.
In June 1667, the raid on the Medway in the course of the Anglo-Dutch War took place in the estuary of the river .
In 1942, as a test for Operation PLUTO, the world's first underwater pipeline was laid on the bottom of the Medway.
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