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A similar view taken thirty years later, showing the river Medway as an industrial highway.

This photograph is taken from across the River Medway and showing Victorians strolling along the Undercliff walk and the 'horseway' path down to the river Medway, and Victorian children leaning on the

Here we see the River Medway being used as an industrial highway: barges and log rafts float downstream past the Archbishop's Palace and All Saints Church.

in this book show a vanished Medway, with timber rafts towed by barges outside the Archbishop's palace, a once-familiar scene of the river as an industrial highway that is no more.

This settlement commanded the lowest fording point on the River Medway, and here, in 455, the invading Jutes under Hengist defeated the native forces led by Vortigern.

Yalding stands near the confluence of the Medway, Beult and Theyse rivers, and has long been popular with the sailing fraternity.

A view from the west bank of the River Medway, looking to the medieval bridge and Aylesford.

Allington is a hamlet on the Medway just to the north of Maidstone.

The River Medway traditionally separates the Men of Kent on its east side from the Kentish Men on the west, but bridges such as this one unite the two 'tribes'.

At this point the River Medway ceases to be tidal; the electrical sluice gates here, thirty feet wide and fifteen feet deep, are an essential part of the flood control scheme of the Medway Valley.

One of these boats, the 'Kingswear Castle' (which entered service the year before), is preserved and operates in the River Medway area of Kent.

This photograph looks down Bank Street towards the High Street and the River Medway.

Although actually very old, this is another Medway-side village that was left with a distinctly Victorian appearance by the 19th century building boom, when it was a source of brick earth and also chalk

Maidstone Bridge, which spans the River Medway, lies at the bottom of the hill.

Another evocative view of the Medway, this time looking downstream round the meander bend.

This picture shows the transformation of the River Medway into a recreational highway rather than a commercial one.

Looking across the River Medway to the tower of All Saints' Church.

The River Medway broadens at Maidstone, on its way to meet the Thames estuary, and the locks here were built in 1792 and mark the tidal limit of the waterway.

The lake was created in the mid-18th century by damming the little river Len, which flows into the Medway near the Archbishop's Palace.

Beyond is a glimpse of the industrial Medway.

This is the view from Rochester Castle looking across the River Medway.

It is a delightful village on the northern edge of Ashdown Forest above the River Medway.

A tranquil scene on the River Medway, looking towards the magnificent All Saints, Maidstone's parish church, dating from 1395.

Although actually very old, this is another Medway-side village that was left with a distinctly Victorian appearance by the 19th century building boom, when it was a source of brick earth and also chalk