19 Facts About Medway

Medway is a unitary authority district and conurbation in Kent, South East England.

The unitary authority was formed in 1998 when Rochester-upon-Medway amalgamated with the Borough of Gillingham to form Medway Towns.

Medway is one of the boroughs included in the Thames Gateway development scheme.

Medway includes parts of the North Kent Marshes, an environmentally significant wetlands region with several Sites of Special Scientific Interest.

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.

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In Medway there are 82 scheduled ancient monuments, 832 Listed buildings and 22 conservation areas.

Medway never saw active service and has been restored and is preserved afloat in Dundee, Scotland.

Medway was taking on coal from the airship base at Kingsnorth, on the Isle of Grain when an internal explosion ripped the ship apart.

Medway was a 1,500-passenger liner built at Dumbarton in 1914 for Canadian Pacific.

Population of Medway is projected to increase to around 300,000 by 2028 according to 2013 projections.

Medway Council foresees total investment on development to be in excess of £1 billion over a 20-year period from 2006.

In 2004, Medway Council announced its development strategy for the Medway Waterfront area.

In 1979, the Borough of Medway was renamed as Rochester-upon-Medway, and in 1982 further letters patent transferred the city status to the entire borough.

Medway applied for city status in the 2000 and 2002 competitions, but was unsuccessful.

Medway Council made a further bid for city status in 2012, when three cities were afforded the honour as part of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee civic honours competition.

Ultimately Medway was unsuccessful with the eventual winners being Chelmsford, Perth, and St Asaph.

Medway operates a two-tier education system, with academic selection for admission to secondary schools determined by the Eleven plus exam.

Medway is home to the third largest Home School population of children in the UK after the Isles of Scilly and Isle of Wight.

The road to Grain was an accident black spot, this and increased traffic from the major port of Thamesport which is located to the north-west along the Medway Estuary prompted the construction of a new dual carriageway.