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Gillingham

Gillingham is a town in Kent, England, which forms a conurbation with neighbouring Chatham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham.

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The place

Gillingham is a town in Kent, England, which forms a conurbation with neighbouring Chatham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham. It is the largest town in the borough of Medway and in 2022 had a population of 111,033.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gillingham

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Rochester Cathedral

    Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in Rochester, Kent, England. The cathedral is the mother church of the Church of England Diocese of Rochester and seat of the Bishop of Rochester, the second oldest bishopric in England after that of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

    3.3 km · Norman church in Rochester, Medway, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rochester Castle

    Rochester Castle stands on the east bank of the River Medway in Rochester, Kent, South East England. The 12th-century keep or stone tower, which is the castle's most prominent feature, is one of the best preserved of its time in England or France.

    3.4 km · castle in Rochester, Kent, South East England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Priestfield Stadium

    Priestfield Stadium is a football stadium in Gillingham, Kent, England. It has been the home of Gillingham Football Club since the club's formation in 1893, and was also the temporary home of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club for two seasons during the 1990s.

    800 m · football stadium · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Anglican Diocese of Rochester

    The Diocese of Rochester is a Church of England diocese in the English county of Kent and the Province of Canterbury. The cathedral church of the diocese is Rochester Cathedral in the former city of Rochester.

    3.3 km · Church of England diocese in England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Dickens World

    Dickens World was a themed attraction located in the Chatham Dockside retail park in Kent, England. It was themed around elements of the life and work of Charles Dickens.

    2.2 km · Amusement park in England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Cockham Wood Fort

    Cockham Wood Fort was constructed in 1669 on the north bank of the River Medway in Kent in south-east England. In conjunction with Fort Gillingham it took on the role of defending Chatham Dockyard from seaborne attack, a role which had been performed by Upnor Castle for the previous hundred years.

    3 km · fort in Hoo St Werburgh, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Royal Engineers Museum

    The Royal Engineers Museum is a military engineering museum and library in Gillingham, Kent, England. It tells the story of the Corps of Royal Engineers and British military engineering in general.

    1.2 km · military museum in Gillingham, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Rochester Bridge

    Rochester Bridge is a bridge over the River Medway in Rochester, Kent, England. For centuries, it was the lowest fixed crossing of the river in South East England.

    3.5 km · bridge in Rochester, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Nasir Mosque

    Nasir Mosque is a mosque in Gillingham, Kent, England. Located on Richmond Road, it was established in 1975 as Nasir Hall.

    1.1 km · mosque in Gillingham, Kent · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Michael the Archangel Church, Chatham

    St Michael the Archangel Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Chatham, Kent, England. It was built from 1862 to 1863 in the Romanesque Revival style, designed by Henry Clutton.

    2.1 km · catholic church in Kent, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Gillingham

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 58 km · London Stansted (STN), 60 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 71 km
Stations
Rochester Airport, 4.9 km · Rochester railway station, 2.7 km · Chatham railway station, 2.1 km · Gillingham railway station, 200 m · Rainham railway station, 4.7 km
  • London → Gillingham
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Gillingham
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £5–7
  • Luton, Luton → Gillingham
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gillingham

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gillingham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    151 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    364 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    367 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    599 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    634 km

If you know how people move in Gillingham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Gillingham

Gillingham is 48 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.