Chatham
Chatham is a historic maritime town in the English county of Kent, on the River Medway. Steeped in naval heritage, it offers a mix of cultural, outdoor, and family-friendly activities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 77,000 residents
- Description: town in Kent, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Chatham, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rochester Cathedral and HMS Cavalier.
Rochester Cathedral
Church
Photo: Raggatt2000, Public domain.
Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in Rochester, Kent, England. The cathedral is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Rochester and seat of the Bishop of Rochester, the second oldest bishopric in England after that of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
HMS Cavalier
Photo: Swpmre, CC BY-SA 3.0.
HMS Cavalier is a retired C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at East Cowes on 28 March 1943, launched on 7 April 1944, and commissioned on 22 November 1944.
Great Lines Heritage Park
Park
The Great Lines Heritage Park is a linked network of open spaces in Kent’s Medway Towns—Chatham, Gillingham, Brompton and the Historic Dockyard. Shaped by its military past, it encompasses Fort Amherst, the Chatham Lines, the Field of Fire, the Inner Lines, Lower Lines Park and Medway Park Sports Centre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rochester and Gillingham.
Rochester
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rochester is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Together with its neighbouring towns of Chatham and Gillingham it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.
Gillingham
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gillingham is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Together with its neighbouring towns of Rochester and Chatham it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.
Strood
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Strood is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Together with its neighbouring towns of Rochester and Chatham it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.
Chatham
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.3819° or 51° 22′ 55″ northLongitude
0.5266° or 0° 31′ 36″ eastPopulation
77,000Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CTMOpen location code
9F329GJG+QJOpenStreetMap ID
node 17915976OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Chatham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “اتشثام”
- Armenian: “Չաթհեմ”
- Asturian: “Chatham”
- Basque: “Chatham (Kent)”
- Basque: “Chatham”
- Bengali: “চাটহাম”
- Catalan: “Chatham”
- Cebuano: “Chatham”
- Chinese: “喀墩”
- Chinese: “查坦”
- Chinese: “查塔姆”
- Chinese: “漆咸”
- Chinese: “甲敦”
- Croatian: “Chatham”
- Czech: “Chatham”
- Dutch: “Chatham”
- Esperanto: “Chatham”
- Finnish: “Chatham”
- French: “Chatham, Kent”
- French: “Chatham”
- German: “Chatham”
- Greek: “Τσάταμ”
- Gujarati: “ચૅથમ”
- Hebrew: “צ’טהאם”
- Hungarian: “Chatham”
- Irish: “Chatham”
- Italian: “Chatham”
- Japanese: “チャタム”
- Kannada: “ಚಾಥಮ್”
- Korean: “채텀”
- Ladin: “Chatham”
- Latvian: “Četema”
- Lithuanian: “Čatamas”
- Macedonian: “Чатам”
- Moksha: “Чатэм (Кэнт)”
- Moksha: “Чатэм”
- Northern Frisian: “Chatham (Kent)”
- Northern Frisian: “Chatham”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chatham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chatham i Kent”
- Norwegian: “Chatham”
- Ossetian: “Чатем (Англис)”
- Ossetian: “Чатем”
- Persian: “چاتهام، کنت”
- Persian: “چتم، کنت”
- Polish: “Chatham”
- Portuguese: “Chatham”
- Romanian: “Chatham, Kent”
- Russian: “Чатем”
- Serbian: “Чатам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chatham, Kent”
- Slovak: “Chatham”
- Slovenian: “Chatham”
- South Azerbaijani: “چتم، کنت”
- Spanish: “Chatham”
- Swedish: “Chatham”
- Tamil: “காதம்”
- Tatar: “Чәтем”
- Telugu: “చాథం”
- Turkish: “Chatham, Kent”
- Ukrainian: “Чатем”
- Urdu: “چاتھم”
- Urdu: “چیٹہم، کینٹ”
- Volapük: “Chatham”
- Welsh: “Chatham, Caint”
- Welsh: “Chatham”
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