River Medway by Holden Clive

Author:Holden, Clive
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Published: 2015-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

Corpus Christi Hall.

The Downstream Bridge connects Whatman Park with Monktons Lane on the opposite bank, where you can see more remnants of the river’s Second World War defences in the form of four huge concrete cubes that acted as anti-tank roadblocks. At the southern end of Whatman Park another one of the Millennium bridges, the Kent Messenger Bridge, connects the park to the Gallagher Stadium, home of Maidstone United Football Club.

As the river bends around to the left it brings into view the high-level truss-girder bridge which carries the mainline railway from Maidstone East station to London Victoria. The East station is one of three serving the town; the other two, Maidstone West and Maidstone Barracks, are on the Medway Valley cross-county line. Maidstone East was opened as ‘Maidstone Station’ by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway in 1874 and was originally the terminus of a line running from Otford, near Sevenoaks. The line was extended eastwards to Ashford in 1884.

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