Chatham

Chatham is a historic maritime town in the county of Kent, on the River Medway. Steeped in naval heritage, it offers a mix of cultural, outdoor, and family-friendly activities.
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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 Rochester railway station.

Church
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, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in Rochester, , England. The cathedral is the mother church of the Church of England Diocese of Rochester and seat of the Bishop of Rochester, the second oldest bishopric in England after that of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Railway station
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is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the town of Rochester, Kent. It is 33 miles 61 chains down the line from and is situated between and Chatham.

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is a retired C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at on 28 March 1943, launched on 7 April 1944, and commissioned on 22 November 1944.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rochester and Gillingham.

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is a town on the River Medway in the north of the county of . Together with its neighbouring towns of Chatham and it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.

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is a town on the River Medway in the north of the county of . Together with its neighbouring towns of and Chatham it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.

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is a town on the River Medway in the north of the county of . Together with its neighbouring towns of and Chatham it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.

Chatham

Latitude
51.3819° or 51° 22′ 55″ north
Longitude
0.5266° or 0° 31′ 36″ east
Population
77,000
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB CTM
Open location code
9F329GJG+QJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17915976
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2653305
Wiki­data ID
Q729006
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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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