Rainham
Rainham is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Together with its neighbouring towns of Gillingham, Chatham, Rochester and Strood it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns. There is also a town of Rainham in Essex.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 34,100 residents
- Description: town in Medway, Kent, England
- Also known as: “Rainham, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rainham (Kent) and Foxburrow Wood.
Rainham (Kent)
Railway station
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Rainham railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in South East England, serving the town of Rainham, Kent. It is 38 miles 74 chains down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Gillingham and Newington.
Foxburrow Wood
Forest
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Foxburrow Wood is a 6.1-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Rainham in Kent. It is owned and managed by Medway Council. This is a remnant of a much larger historic wood, and it has flora which are indicators of ancient woodland such as herb paris and bluebells.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yelsted.
Yelsted
Hamlet
Yelsted is a hamlet in the Borough of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, England. In 1800, Edward Hasted noted that it was spelt Gillested. It was a manor in the parish of Stockbury, the manor-house was owned by 'John de Savage'. Yelsted is situated 2½ miles south of Rainham.
Rainham
- Category: locality
- Location: Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.3633° or 51° 21′ 48″ northLongitude
0.6084° or 0° 36′ 30″ eastPopulation
34,100Elevation
135 feet (41 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB RNAOpen location code
9F329J75+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 191969052OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Rainham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “رينهام”
- Asturian: “Rainham”
- Basque: “Rainharm (Kent)”
- Basque: “Rainharm”
- Bulgarian: “Раинхам”
- Cebuano: “Rainham”
- Chinese: “雷納姆”
- Chinese: “雷纳姆”
- Dutch: “Rainham”
- French: “Rainham”
- German: “Rainham”
- Italian: “Rainham”
- Japanese: “レイナム”
- Ladin: “Rainham”
- Persian: “رینهام، کنت”
- Polish: “Rainham”
- Swedish: “Rainham”
- Volapük: “Rainham”
- Welsh: “Rainham, Caint”
- Welsh: “Rainham”
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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 “Rainham”. Photo: ClemRutter, CC BY-SA 4.0.