Chatham
Chatham Riverside from SunPier
Chatham shown within Kent
Population	70,540 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference	TQ765659
- London	33mi
Unitary authority	Medway
Ceremonial county	Kent
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHATHAM
Postcode district	ME4, ME5
Dialling code	01634
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
European Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Chatham and Aylesford
List of places: UK • England • Kent

Coordinates: 51°21′40″N 0°32′10″E / 51.361, 0.5362

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Although the dockyard has long been closed and is now being redeveloped, into a business and residential community, its major buildings remain; so that, in addition to that more modern usage, the historical importance of the dockyard makes an important contribution to the tourist industry. In addition to Chatham being a naval town it also has military connections: several Army barracks were located here, together with 19th-century forts which provided a defensive shield for the dockyard.

The town has important road links and the railway and bus stations are the main interchanges for the area. |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains bus station is a structure where city or intercity Buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers It is the administrative headquarters of Medway unitary authority, as well as its principal shopping centre.

Contents 1 Etymology 2 History 3 Governance 4 Geography 5 Demography 6 Economy 7 Landmarks 8 Transport 9 Religion 10 Education 11 Sports 12 Popular Culture 13 Notable People 14 References 15 Twin Towns 16 External links

Etymology

There are several theories as to the origin of the name Chatham. It was first recorded as Cetham in 880, its name coming from the British root ceto and the Old English ham thus meaning a forest settlement. ^[1]. The origin of the word 'Chatham' may have come from the same root as Catti or 'Chatti' named after people who immigrated to Britain. The Chatti (also Chatthi or Catti) were an ancient Germanic tribe whose homeland was near the upper Weser. ^[2]. An alternative explanation is that it comes from two Saxon words cyte, a cottage, and ham, a village: a village of cottages ^[3] . The Domesday Book records the place as Ceteham. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey

History

Chatham stands on the route of Watling Street, the Roman road to London; among other finds have been the remains of a Roman cemetery. Watling Street is the name given to an Ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern After the Norman invasion the manor of Chatham, originally Saxon, was given by William the Conqueror to Earl Godwin. William I of England ( 1027 His reign which brought Norman culture to England had an enormous impact on the subsequent course of England in the Middle Ages Godwin of Wessex, also known as Godwine Goodwin Godwyn or Goodwyn (c

It remained a small village on the banks of the river until, by the 16th century it was being used to harbour warships, because of its strategic location facing the Continent. It was officially established as a Royal Dockyard by Elizabeth I in 1568. Initially a refitting base, it became a shipbuilding yard; from then, until the late nineteenth century, further expansion of the yard took place. In its time, many thousands of men were employed at the dockyard, and many hundreds of vessels were launched there, including HMS Victory which was built there in the 1760s. Construction In December 1758 the commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a Dry dock for the construction of a new First-rate After World War One many submarines were also built in Chatham Dockyard. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All A submarine is a Watercraft that can operate independently below water as distinct from a Submersible that has only limited underwater capability

In addition to the dockyard itself, defensive fortifications^[4] were built to protect it from attack. Upnor Castle had been built in 1567, but had proved ineffectual. Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan artillery fort located in the village of Upnor, Kent England The Dutch Raid on the Medway in 1667, showed that more was required. The Raid on the Medway, sometimes called the Battle of Medway or the Battle of Chatham, was a successful Dutch attack on the largest English The fortifications, which became more elaborate as the threat of invasion grew, were begun in 1756 as a complex across the neck of the peninsula formed by the bend in the River Medway, and included Fort Amherst. Fort Amherst, in Kent, England, was constructed in 1756 at the southern end of the Brompton lines of defence to protect the southeastern approaches The threat of a land-based attack from the south during the 19th century led to the construction of even more forts.

The second phase of fort-building (1806-1819) included Fort Pitt (later used as a hospital and the site of the first Army Medical School). The 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom ordered, inter alia, a third outer ring of forts: these included Fort Luton ^[5], Fort Bridgewood, and Fort Borstal^[6]. In 1859 Lord Palmerston instigated the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom because of serious concerns that France might attempt to invade the Fort Luton was built between 1876 and 1892 south of Chatham, Kent, England. The site of Fort Bridgewoods is on the outskirts of Rochester, Kent next to the Rochester-Maidstone road (B2091 Fort Borstal was built as an afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, by convict labour between 1875 and 1885 These fortifications all required military personnel to man them and Army barracks to house those men. These included Kitchener Barracks (c 1750-1780), the Royal Marine Barracks (c 1780). Brompton Artillery Barracks (1806)^[7] and Melville Barracks . H. M. S. Collingwood and H. M. S. Pembroke were both naval barracks.

As a result of the huge manpower required the small village of Chatham grew to accommodate it, as did many of the other nearby villages and towns. Trams, and later buses, linked those places to bring in the workforce. A tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car, or streetcar is a railborne vehicle, of lighter weight and construction than a Train The area between the High Street and Luton village illustrates part of that growth, with its many streets of Victorian terraces.

With ending of the Cold War Britain’s naval force was considerably reduced, and Chatham Dockyard was being run down; eventually, in 1984, it closed completely. Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the The dockyard buildings remain, to become a historic site (operated by Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust^[8]), and now being considered as a World Heritage Site^[9] the site is being used for other purposes. A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a Forest, Mountain, Lake, Desert, Monument, Building, complex The St Mary’s Island section is now a marina, and the remainder is being put to housing, and commercial and uses . ^[10].

Governance

Chatham lost its independence as a borough under the Local Government Act 1972, by which, on 1 April 1974, it became part of Medway Borough ; under subsequent renaming the Borough became the Borough of Rochester-upon-Medway (1979); and, from 1982, the City of Rochester-upon-Medway. The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c 70 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, that reformed local government in England and Wales The City of Rochester-upon-Medway was a local government district in north Kent, England from 1974 to 1998 The City of Rochester-upon-Medway was a local government district in north Kent, England from 1974 to 1998 Under the most recent change, in 1998, and with the addition of Gillingham Borough, Medway Borough became the Medway Unitary Authority ^[11]

The Medway Council has located its main administration building on Gun Wharf, the site of the earliest part of the Dockyard

Geography

Chatham is situated where the lower part of the dip slope of the North Downs meets the River Medway which at this point is flowing in a south-north direction. A dip slope is a geological formation often created by Erosion of tilted strata. The North Downs are a ridge of Chalk hills in south east England that stretch for 120 miles (190 km from Farnham in Surrey to the White The River Medway, which is almost entirely in Kent, England, flows for from just inside the West Sussex border to the point where it enters This gives the right bank, where the town stands, considerable advantages from the point of view of river use. Compared with opposite bank, the river is fast-flowing and deep; the illustration (1), an early print of the settlement, is taken from the point where Fort Pitt now stands. The town lies below at river level, curving round to occupy a south-easterly trending valley (The Brook”), in which lies the High Street. Beyond the dockyard is marshy land, now called St Mary’s Island. The New Road crosses the scene below the vantage point of the illustration.

Illustration (2) is taken from the opposite side of the valley: the Pentagon Centre is to the right, with the building on the ridge left of centre, Fort Pitt. Rochester lies beyond that ridge; and Frindsbury is on the rising ground in the right distance. Frindsbury is part of the Medway Towns conurbation in Kent, southern England.

The valley continues southeastwards as the Luton Valley, in which is the erstwhile village of that name; and Capstone Valley. The Darland Banks, the northern slopes of the valley above these valleys, are unimproved chalk grassland. The photograph (3), taken from the Banks and looking south, shows the village in the centre, with the rows of Victorian terraced housing, which unusually follow the contour lines. The opposite slopes are the ‘’Daisy Banks’’ and ‘’Coney Banks’’, along which some of the defensive forts were built (including Fort Luton, in the trees to the left)

Until the start of the 20th century, most of the south part of the borough was entirely rural, with a number of farms and large tracts of woodland. The beginning of what is now ‘’Walderslade’’ was when a speculative builder began to build the core of the village in Walderslade Bottoms. ^[13].

Demography

Chatham became a market town in its own right in the 19th century, and a municipal borough in 1890. Municipal boroughs were a type of Local government which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974 in Northern Ireland from 1840 to By 1831 its population had reached more than 16,000. By 1961 it had reached 48,800. ^[14]

Economy

The close of the Dockyard has had the effect of changing the employment statistics of the town.

Landmarks

The Chatham Naval Memorial commemorates the 18,500 officers, ranks and ratings of the Royal Navy who were lost or buried at sea in the two World Wars. Chatham Naval Memorial is a large Obelisk situated in the town of Chatham Kent, which is in the Medway Towns. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) It stands on the Great Lines between Chatham and Gillingham. ]] Chatham Town Hall was built in 1900; it stands in The Brook: and is of an unique architectural design. With the town being part of Medway conurbation, it took on a new role as an arts centre. In 1996, it became the Brook Theatre^[15]. The Pentagon Centre which incorporates Chatham Bus Station, standsin the town centre^[16]

Transport

Main article: River Medway

The Medway, apart from Chatham Dockyard, has always had an important role in communication: historically is provided a means for the transport of goods to and from the interior of Kent. The River Medway, which is almost entirely in Kent, England, flows for from just inside the West Sussex border to the point where it enters KENT (1400 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a Adult Standards/MOR format Stone, timber and iron from the Weald for shipbuilding and agricultural produce were among the cargoes. The Weald (wɪəld is the name given to a physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel Chalk Escarpments of the North Sun Pier in Chatham was one of many such along the river. By 1740, barges of forty tons could navigate as far upstream as Tonbridge. Tonbridge (historic spelling Tunbridge) is a Market town in the English county of Kent, with a population of 30340 in 2007 ^[14] Today its use is confined to tourist traffic; apart from the marina, there are many yacht moorings on the river itself.

Chatham's position on the road network began with the building of the Roman road (Watling Street, which passed through the town; . Watling Street is the name given to an Ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern Turnpike trusts were established locally, so that the length from Chatham to Canterbury was turnpiked in 1730; and the Chatham to Maidstone road (nowA230) was also turnpiked before 1750. Turnpike trusts in the United Kingdom were bodies set up by Act of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal highways Canterbury ( ˈkæntəbɹ̩i is a City in eastern Kent in the South East region of England. A toll road, (also known as a tollway, turnpike, pike, or toll highway, especially if it is constructed to Freeway standards The A230 is a short Road running north-south in the Medway town of Chatham in Kent. The High Street was bypassed in 1769, by the New Road (see illustration (1) leading from the top of Star Hill Rochester, to the bottom of Chatham Hill at Luton Arches. This also became inadequate for the London Cross-channel traffic and the Medway Towns Bypass, the M2 motorway, was constructed to divert through traffic south of the Medway Towns. The M2 is a Motorway in Kent, England. It is 257 Miles (414 Km) long and acts as a bypass of the section of the A2

Chatham is the hub of the Medway Towns. This fact means that the existing road system has always proved inadequate for the amount of traffic it has to handle, and various schemes have been tried to alleviate the congestion. The High Street itself is traffic-free, so all traffic has to skirt around it. The basic west-east routes are The Brook to the north and New Road to the south, but the additional problems caused by the situation of the Pentagon Bus Station ("The Pentagon") means that conflicting traffic flows are the result. In the 1980s the Chatham town centre was remodelled and an inner ring road - a one-way system - was constructed. This was completed with the construction of the Sir John Hawkins Flyover opened in 1989 carrying the south to north traffic over the High Street.

Chatham railway station, opened in 1858, serves both the North Kent and the Chatham Main Lines, and is the interchange between the two lines. This article is about the station in Kent England For the station in Melbourne Australia see Chatham railway station Melbourne. The North Kent Line is a railway line which connects central and south east London with Dartford and Medway. The Chatham Main Line is the British railway line that runs from London Victoria to Dover Priory or Ramsgate via the Medway Towns It lies in the valley between the Fort Pitt and the Chatham Tunnels. There are four trains an hour to London Victoria, and two trains an hour to London Charing Charing Cross. London Victoria is a major London Underground, National Rail and Coach station in the City of Westminster. Charing Cross railway station is a central London railway terminus The former services run to Dover and Ramsgate; the latter terminate at Gillingham. Dover is a town and major ferry port in the county of Kent, England. Ramsgate is a seaside town on the Isle of Thanet in east Kent, England.

Part of the industrial railway in what is now Chatham Historic Dockyard is still in operation, run by the North Kent Industrial Locomotive Society.

Religion

In the 19th century the ecclesiastical parish of Chatham included Luton and Brompton and also Chatham Intra (Land on the river that was administered by the City of Rochester). A parish is a Local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in episcopal or presbyterian churches ^[17] Chatham's parish church, St Marys, which stood on Dock Road, was rebuilt in 1788. St John's was built in 1821, but remodelled in 1869, and abolished in 1964. St Paul's New Road was built in 1854; declared redundant in 1974, it has been demolished. St Peter's Troy Town was built in 1860. Christchurch Luton was built in 1843, replaced in 1884. The Royal Dockyard church (1806) was declared redundant in 1981.

St Michael's is a Roman Catholic Church, that was built in 1863. There is a Unitarian Chapel built in 1861.

Chatham is reputed to be the home of the first Baptist chapel in north Kent, the Zion Baptist Chapel in Clover Street. Baptist is a term describing individuals belonging to a Baptist church or a Baptist denomination. The first known pastor was Edward Morecock who settled there in the 1660s. During Cromwell's time Morecock had been a sea-captain and had been injured in battle. His knowledge of the River Medway is reputed to have preserved him from persecution in the reign of King Charles II. The River Medway, which is almost entirely in Kent, England, flows for from just inside the West Sussex border to the point where it enters Charles II (Charles Stuart 29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685 was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. There was a second Baptist chapel founded about 1700. The Ebenezer Chapel dates back to 1662.

Chatham Memorial Synagogue was built by Simon Magnus in 1867 on the Chatham end of Rochester High Street in Rochester. ^[18]

Education

Chatham is served by the following Primary Schools.

• All Saints CE Primary
• Balfour Junior
• Bradfields
• Glencoe Junior
• Greenvale Infant
• Horsted Infant
• Horsted Junior
• Kingfisher Primary
• Lordswood Infant
• Lordswood Junior
• Luton Infant
• Luton Junior
• Maundene
• New Road Primary School & Nursery Unit
• Oaklands Infant
• Oaklands Junior
• Ridge Meadow Primary
• Silverbank Park
• Spinnens Acre Junior
• St Benedict's Catholic Primary
• St John's CE (VC) Infant
• St Mary's Island C of E (Aided) Primary
• St Michael's Catholic Primary
• St Thomas More Catholic Primary
• Swingate Infant
• Walderslade Primary
• Wayfield Community Primary & Nursery Unit

Secondary Education, outside the Catholic Sector, is selective. Many pupils attend schools in neighbouring towns.

• Chatham Grammar School for Boys
• Chatham Grammar School for Girls
• Chatham South School
• Fort Pitt Grammar School (girls)
• Greenacre School
• Medway Community College
• St John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive
• Walderslade Girls' School^[19]

Tertiary

• Mid-Kent College is a Further Education College based at Horsted, but is also in partnership with Canterbury Christchurch University at Medway

Universities

• University of Greenwich at Medway
• University of Kent at Medway
• Canterbury Christchurch University^[20]

Sports

The town's Association Football club, Chatham Town F.C., plays in the Isthmian League Division One South. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Chatham Town are an English Association Football club based in Chatham Kent. History The Isthmian League First Division South (note the slightly different title existed for two seasons from 2002-03 till 2003-04. Lordswood F.C. play in the Kent League. Lordswood FC is a football club based in Lordswood, which is a suburb of Chatham, England. History The first Kent League was formed in 1894 and folded in 1959 The defunct Chatham Excelsior F. C. were one of the early pioneers of football in Southern England. Southern England is an imprecise term used to refer to the southern Counties of England. Football league side Gillingham F.C. are seen to represent Medway as a whole. Gillingham Football Club is an English professional football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent. History The Medway area has a long and varied history dominated

Kite Flying, especially power kiting has seen a resurgence in recent months, with the Great Lines becoming a popular area.

Popular Culture

It is claimed by some, that Chatham is the birthplace of "chav" subculture. Chav (ʧæv or Charv/Charva (ʧɑːv The "Chav Culture" in Chatham and around the Medway Towns, included the wearing of gold jewellery, shell-suits and earrings. This was first evident from a website about "Chatham Girls" (immortalized in a song by Mark Taylor), which received a huge amount of media interest. Mark Taylor may refer to Mark Taylor (actor, Canadian television actor ( Drop the Beat) Mark Taylor (cricketer, Australian The website was so popular it was pulled by Geocities for exceeding its bandwidth. Yahoo! GeoCities is a Webhosting service founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet (BHI ^[21]

On a cultural level Chatham also gave birth to several movements in literature, art and music. In the period from 1978 until 1982 the Medway Delta Sound emerged. Several of these bands gained international recognition e. g. The Milkshakes, The Prisoners (see also James Taylor Quartet), The Dagger Men, The Dentists, Christopher Broderick and The Singing Loins. Billy Childish (real name Steven John Hamper) or William Charlie Hamper (born December 1, 1959) is an English artist author Poet The Prisoners were a mod revival band who formed in 1982 in Chatham Kent England The James Taylor Quartet are a British four-piece Jazz funk band who have become renowned for their live performances In recent years there has been a renaissance in the Medway Delta Sound lead by singers such as Pete Molinari. Pete Molinari is a singer/songwriter from Chatham Kent. Background Molinari was born into a large Maltese - Italian - Egyptian The Medway Poets were formed in 1977 and disbanded in 1982 having performed at major literary festivals and on TV and Radio. The Medway Poets were founded in Medway, North Kent in 1979 They were an English punk based poetry performance group and later formed the core of They became a major influence to writers in the Medway Towns. History The Medway area has a long and varied history dominated From the core of this group the anti conceptual/pro painting movements of Stuckism and Remodernism came into being. Stuckism is an Art movement that was founded in 1999 in Britain by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting Remodernism is a term promulgated by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, in an attempt to introduce a period of new spirituality into art culture and society to replace

Recent Medway artists of note include Kid Harpoon and Underground Heroes. Kid Harpoon (born Tom Hull, 20 April 1982, Chatham, Kent, England) is a English Singer-songwriter

Notable People

Charles Dickens lived in the town as a boy, both in 'The Brook, Chatham' and in Ordnance Terrace before Chatham railway station was built just opposite. This article is about the station in Kent England For the station in Melbourne Australia see Chatham railway station Melbourne. He subsequently described it as the happiest period of his childhood, and eventually returned to the area in adulthood when he bought a house in nearby Gad's Hill. Higham is a small village bordering the Hoo Peninsula, in Kent, between Gravesend and Rochester. Medway features in his novels. History The Medway area has a long and varied history dominated

Twice BDO World Championship Darts Finalist Dave Whitcombe was born in Chatham and continues to live in Sittingbourne. Sittingbourne is an industrial town about eight miles (129 km east of Gillingham, beside the Roman Watling Street off a creek in The Swale

The composer Percy Whitlock (1903-1946); the painter and killer Richard Dadd (1819-1887); and, in more modern times, the artist/poet/musician Billy Childish and poet/painter/storyteller and mythographer Bill Lewis lived in Chatham. Percy William Whitlock ( 1 June 1903, Chatham, Kent – 1 May 1946, Bournemouth) was an English Organist Richard Dadd ( August 1 1817 – January 7 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of Billy Childish (real name Steven John Hamper) or William Charlie Hamper (born December 1, 1959) is an English artist author Poet William "Bill" Lewis (born August 1, 1953) is an English artist story-teller poet and mythographer The poet/screenwriter/film maker and writer Alan Denman , was a lecturer at the Kent Institute of Art & Design (KIAD) at Fort Pitt in Rochester. The Kent Institute of Art & Design ( KIAD - often ˈkaɪæd was an Art school based across three Campuses in the county of Kent, in the United Fort Pitt was a Fort built between 1805 and 1819 on the high ground of the boundary between Chatham and Rochester, Kent. The Brit artist Tracey Emin and designer Zandra Rhodes were KIAD students. Tracey Emin RA (born 3 July, 1963) is an English Artist of Turkish Cypriot origin one of the group known as Britartists Zandra (Lindsey Rhodes CBE (born 19 September 1940 Chatham Kent is a British fashion designer KIAD is now part of the University College for the Creative Arts (UCCA). Emin also lived at Castle Road, Rochester and in Chatham. The author and screenwriter Stel Pavlou also attended Chatham Grammar School for Boys, as did boyband-singer Lee Ryan. Stelios Grant Pavlou (born November 22 1970) is a British Author and Screenwriter. Chatham Grammar School for Boys (commonly abbreviated CGSB) is a grammar school in Chatham, Kent, England. Lee Ryan (born 17 June 1983 in Chatham Kent) is a singer-songwriter actor and former member of the British Boy band Blue and is now pursuing

References

Twin Towns

• Valenciennes, France. Valenciennes (Old Dutch: Valencijn, Latin: Valentianae) is a Town and commune in northern France in the This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.

External links

• The Chatham News Index (1899-1965)

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