Talk:River Medway

Men of Kent & Kentish Men
Is it just me, or are parts of this in need of redoing? People born in Maidstone (& Tonbridge) may be Men of Kent or Kentish Men depending on exactly where they were born. People born in Rainham (Kent), Rochester and Gillingham are Men of Kent. Possibly someone getting confused with the Medway Unitary Authority, the creation of which has changed nothing in relation to this - same as the thieving of ¼ of Kent by London in the 1880s! Mjroots (talk) 19:10, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

See West Kent for further details. Cannot discover anything to confirm the popular belief otherwise. ClemRutter (talk) 01:24, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Might this possibly be related to the Saxon / Jute divide? The London end of Kent would have been Middle Saxons and/or West Saxons, and those to the east would have been Jutes, at least up to the time of William the Bastard or so. --Philculmer (talk) 23:17, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Tonbridge
Tonbridge was spelt Tunbridge until the mid nineteenth century, therefore any usage of Tunbridge before then is not a misspelling. Mjroots (talk) 13:20, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Catchment Area
Surely the Thames is in Southern England and has a larger catchment area.
 * This question was asked before (now archived), and the answer was as given below (copied from archive), but it does not answer the query, given the much larger Thames basin. Jokulhlaup (talk) 18:28, 20 January 2014 (UTC)


 * the term "catchment area" refers to the entire area from which all the water making up a particular river originates. The Medway catchment area contains hundreds of tributaries and sub-tributaries; the Thames, in spite of being a longer river, has fewer, and from a more resticted area. It is all to do with the relief of the land Peter Shearan 09:53, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Reference 3, the more detailed map
When I click: Map of the Medway catchment area:The River Medway (and tributaries) I get a screen that says: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~srmulti/medway/ on this server.

Can anyone sort that out or find who put the original link there? I have no idea how to do either of those things. 195.147.164.224 (talk) 13:42, 10 February 2017 (UTC) Tim

Intro. 2nd Sentence
"It rises in the High Weald, East Sussex ..."

However, the 'Physical characteristics' states:

"Source: location  Turners Hill, West Sussex"

In fact, approximately the first 4 miles of the river's course is in West Sussex, NOT East Sussex. 95.144.72.128 (talk) 07:59, 2 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Changed Murgatroyd49 (talk) 09:55, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Missing lock
At time of writing the map is missing Sluice Weir Lock which is between between Oak Weir Lock and Branbridges. 217.155.54.248 (talk) 19:51, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Now added. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 20:18, 20 July 2024 (UTC)