Gillingham
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 104,000 residents
- Description: town in Kent, England
- Also known as: “Gillingham, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Priestfield Stadium and Great Lines Heritage Park.
Priestfield Stadium
Stadium
Photo: ChrisTheDude, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Priestfield Stadium is a football stadium in Gillingham, Kent, England. It has been the home of Gillingham Football Club since the club's formation in 1893, and was also the temporary home of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club for two seasons during the 1990s.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chatham and Rochester.
Chatham
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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.
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.
Gillingham
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.3872° or 51° 23′ 14″ northLongitude
0.5462° or 0° 32′ 46″ eastPopulation
104,000Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GILOpen location code
9F329GPW+VFOpenStreetMap ID
node 17915977OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Gillingham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جيلينغهام”
- Aragonese: “Gillingham”
- Asturian: “Gillingham”
- Azerbaijani: “Cillinhem”
- Basque: “Gillingham (Kent)”
- Basque: “Gillingham”
- Bengali: “গিলিংহ্যাম”
- Catalan: “Gillingham”
- Cebuano: “Gillingham”
- Chinese: “吉林漢姆”
- Chinese: “吉灵厄姆”
- Chinese: “吉靈厄姆”
- Chinese: “基寧咸”
- Czech: “Gillingham”
- Dutch: “Gillingham”
- Esperanto: “Gillingham”
- Finnish: “Gillingham”
- French: “Gillingham, Kent”
- French: “Gillingham”
- Galician: “Gillingham”
- German: “Gillingham, Kent”
- German: “Gillingham”
- Greek: “Τζίλιγχαμ, Κεντ”
- Greek: “Τζίλιγχαμ”
- Gujarati: “ગિલિંગહામ”
- Hebrew: “ג’ילינגהאם”
- Hebrew: “גילינגהאם”
- Hungarian: “Gillingham”
- Indonesian: “Gillingham”
- Irish: “Gillingham”
- Italian: “Gillingham”
- Japanese: “ジリンガム”
- Kannada: “ಗಿಲ್ಲಿಂಗ್ಹ್ಯಾಮ್”
- Kannada: “ಜಿಲಿಂಗ್ಹ್ಯಮ್”
- Korean: “질링엄”
- Ladin: “Gillingham”
- Latvian: “Džilingema”
- Lithuanian: “Džilingamas”
- Luxembourgish: “Gillingham”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gillingham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gillingham”
- Norwegian: “Gillingham”
- Persian: “جیلینگهام، کنت”
- Persian: “گیلینگهام، کنت”
- Polish: “Gillingham”
- Portuguese: “Gillingham”
- Romanian: “Gillingham”
- Russian: “Джиллингем”
- Serbian: “Џилингам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gillingham, Kent”
- Silesian: “Gillingham”
- Slovenian: “Gillingham”
- Spanish: “Gillingham”
- Swedish: “Gillingham, Kent”
- Swedish: “Gillingham”
- Tamil: “கில்லிங்ஹாம்”
- Tatar: “Җилиңем”
- Telugu: “గిల్లింగ్ హమ్”
- Turkish: “Gillingham, Kent”
- Ukrainian: “Джиллінгем”
- Urdu: “جیلینگھام”
- Volapük: “Gillingham”
- Welsh: “Gillingham, Caint”
- Welsh: “Gillingham”
- Yue Chinese: “基寧咸”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Gillingham”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.