Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MEDWAY

MEDWAY, a district in Kent; divided into the subdistricts of Rochester and Gillingham. Rochester subdistrict contains the parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Margaret, the precinct of the cathedral, and the lesser part of the parish of Chatham. Acres, 3,120. Pop. in 1851,16,508; in 1861,17,550. Houses, 3,298. Gillingham sub-district contains the parish of Gillingham, the hamlet of Grange, the ville of Lidsing, and the greater part of the parish of Chatham. Acres, 11,445. Pop. in 1851,26,288; in 1861,34,255. Houses, 4,841. Poorrates of the district in 1863, £13,032. Marriages in 1863,566; births, 1,923,-of which 63 were illegitimate; deaths, 1,180,-of which 504 were at ages under 5 years, and 29 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60,4,461; births, 15,002; deaths, 10,926. The places of worship, in 1851, were 15 of the Church of England, with 9,639 sittings; 3 of Independents, with 1,220 s. 4 of Baptists, with 1,294 s.; 1 of Quakers, with 300 s.; 8 of Wesleyan Methodists, with 2,422 s.; 4 of Bible Christians, with 697 s.; 2 of the Wesleyan Association, with 369 s.; 1 of the New Church, with 70 s.; 1 of the Catholic and Apostolic Church, with 120 s.; 1 of Roman Catholics, with 150 s.; and 1 of Jews, with 84 s. The schools were 23 public day schools, with 3,033 scholars; 101 private day schools, with 2,540 s.; 32 Sunday schools, with 4,351 s.; and 1 evening school for adults, with 25 s. The workhouse is in the Gillingham section of Chatham parish; and, at the census of 1861, had 493 inmates..


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Medway RegD/PLU       Kent AncC
Place: Medway

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