Medway VTS
Cultivating General Practice in the Garden of England
Medway towns
Chatham historic dockyard
Medway is an historic collection of towns lining the River Medway.
Rochester - An ancient cathedral city on the river Medway, with castle, cobbled high street and Dickens Centre and Restoration House.
Chatham - Home to the old naval dockyards, and riverside developments including the dockside outlet shopping centre, as well as University of Greenwich Medway Campus and Royal Engineers Museum.
Gillingham and Rainham - Medway Maritime Associated teaching Hospital, with its tertiary paediatrics unit and Neuro-otology balance centre. Ice skating rink, dry slope ski centre, and riverside country park.
Rochester Cathedral
Countryside
Despite all this, you are never more than 10 minutes away from beautiful unspoilt Kentish countryside whether it is the estuary walks, North Downs or numerous nature reserves and sites of outstanding beauty. Boating enthusiasts should find plenty to occupy themselves.
Connections
The Medway towns are 60 minutes by car or train to central London or Gatwick Airport, 2 hours to Paris from Ashford international station (20 minutes drive), and lie beside the M2 and M20 motorways. Ebbsfleet station is open for Eurostar services and should provide easy access to Central London in the future.
Medway estuary
Local Amenities
There are good primary, grammar and independent schools within Medway. As well as its own Dockside shopping complex, Maidstone town centre is 15 minutes away, Canterbury 30 minutes, Bluewater and Thurrock shopping centres 35 minutes.