Medway Tunnel
The Medway Tunnel is a tunnel under the River Medway linking Strood with Chatham in Kent, England. It forms part of the A289 Medway Towns Northern Relief Road.Photo: Danny Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Upnor Castle and HMS Gannet.
Upnor Castle
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan artillery fort located on the west bank of the River Medway in Kent. It is in the village of Upnor, opposite and a short distance downriver from the Chatham Dockyard, at one time a key naval facility. Upnor Castle is situated 2,300 feet north of Medway Tunnel.
HMS Gannet
Photo: Paul Englefield, CC BY 2.0.
HMS Gannet is a Royal Navy Doterel-class screw sloop-of-war launched on 31 August 1878. It became a training ship in the Thames in 1903, and was then loaned as a training ship for boys in the Hamble from 1913. HMS Gannet is situated 1,700 feet south of Medway Tunnel.
HMS Ocelot
Photo: Mark.murphy, Public domain.
HMS Ocelot is an Oberon-class diesel-electric submarine which was operated by the Royal Navy. HMS Ocelot is situated 1,900 feet south of Medway Tunnel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brompton and Wainscott.
Brompton
Village
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brompton is a suburban village situated between the town centres of Gillingham and Chatham, lying adjacent to Chatham Dockyard in Medway, Kent, England. Its name means "a farmstead where broom grows" — broom is a small yellow flowering shrub.
Wainscott
Village
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wainscott is a small village in Rochester, in Kent, England. It is in the civil parish of Frindsbury Extra, in the Medway Unitary Authority, that is Medway Council.
Rochester Riverside
Locality
Rochester Riverside is a large-scale urban regeneration district located on a 74-acre brownfield site between the River Medway and the railway line in Rochester, Kent, England.
Medway Tunnel
- Type: Tunnel
- Description: tunnel under the River Medway linking Strood with Chatham
- Categories: road tunnel and transportation
- Location: Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.40058° or 51° 24′ 2″ northLongitude
0.52823° or 0° 31′ 42″ eastOpen location code
9F32CG2H+67OpenStreetMap ID
way 512863688OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=tunnelWikidata ID
Q6807429
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