Medway
Medway | |
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Clockwise from top: Rochester Cathedral, HMS Ocelot, Rochester Castle, Royal Engineers Museum, Upnor Castle, Chatham Historic Dockyard | |
Shown within Kent | |
| Coordinates: 51°23′N 0°32′E / 51.39°N 0.54°E | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | South East England |
| Ceremonial county | Kent |
| Status | Unitary authority |
| Incorporated | 1 April 1998 |
| Admin HQ | Gun Wharf, Chatham |
| Government | |
| • Type | Unitary authority |
| • Body | Medway Council |
| • Leadership | Leader & Cabinet (Labour Co-op) |
| • Mayor | Cllr Trevor Clarke |
| • MPs | |
| • Deputy Mayor | Cllr Wayne Spring |
| • Council Leader | Cllr Vince Maple |
| Area | |
• Total | 74.14 sq mi (192.03 km2) |
| • Rank | 148th (of 296) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 282,702 |
| • Rank | 56th (of 296) |
| • Density | 3,800/sq mi (1,500/km2) |
| Ethnicity (2021) | |
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| Religion (2021) | |
| • Religion | List
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| Time zone | UTC0 (GMT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
| ONS code | 00LC (ONS) E06000035 (GSS) |
| OS grid reference | TQ768688 |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-MED |
| Website | medway |
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Medway is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Kent in South East England. It was formed in 1998 by merging the boroughs of Rochester-upon-Medway and Gillingham, and is administered by Medway Council, which is independent from Kent County Council. The borough had a population of 278,016 in 2019. The borough contains the towns of Chatham, Gillingham, Rainham, Rochester and Strood, which are collectively known as the Medway Towns.
Medway is one of the boroughs included in the Thames Gateway development scheme. It is also the home of Universities at Medway, a tri-partite collaboration of the University of Greenwich, the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University on a single campus in Chatham, together with the Medway School of Arts.