River Medway
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river in South East England, UK
Key facts
- Country
- England
- Region
- South East England , West Sussex , Kent
- District
- Mid Sussex , Sevenoaks , Tonbridge and Malling , Medway and Maidstone
- Location
- Turners Hill , West Sussex
- Coordinates
- 51°06′25″N 0°5′37″W / 51.10694°N 0.09361°W / 51.10694; -0.09361
- Elevation
- 489 ft (149 m)
- Mouth
- Thames Estuary
- Length
- 70 mi (113 km)
- Basin size
- 930 sq mi (2,400 km )
- Average
- 11.08 m /s (391 cu ft/s)
- Minimum
- 0.43 m /s (15 cu ft/s)24 August 1978
- Maximum
- 358.6 m /s (12,660 cu ft/s)16 September 1968
- Left
- Eden , Bourne , Wateringbury Stream , East Malling Stream , other minor streams
- Right
- Teise , Beult , Loose Stream , Len , other minor streams
- Official name
- Medway Estuary & Marshes
- Designated
- 15 December 1993
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Medway
- Image
- River Medway from Sun Pier - geograph.org.uk - 7619452.jpg
- Length
- 113
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- Commons category
- River Medway
- origin of the watercourse
- Turners Hill
- watershed area
- 2409
- mouth of the watercourse
- River Thames
- discharge
- 90.0
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
The River Medway is a river in South East England. It rises in the High Weald, West Sussex and flows through Tonbridge, Maidstone and the Medway conurbation in Kent, before emptying into the Thames Estuary near Sheerness, a total distance of 70 miles (113 km). About 13 miles (21 km) of the river lies in East Sussex, with the remainder being in Kent.
The Medway has a catchment area of 930 square miles (2,409 km), the second largest in southern England after the Thames. The map opposite shows only the major tributaries: a more detailed map shows the extensive network of smaller streams feeding into the main river. Those tributaries rise from points along the North Downs, the Weald and Ashdown Forest.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “River Medway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations