The Lights Of Hoo St Werburgh On The Medway

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The Lights Of Hoo St Werburgh On The Medway
The Lights Of Hoo St Werburgh On The Medway

This view of the River Medway, seen from Gillingham, 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 113 kilometres. About 21 kilometres of the river lies in East Sussex, with the remainder being in Kent.

The Medway features a catchment area of 2,409 km², making it the second largest in southern England, following the Thames. An extensive system of smaller streams flows into the main river, with these tributaries originating from various locations along the North Downs, the Weald, and Ashdown Forest.

The lights visible in the distance (1.5 km) originate from Hoo St Werburgh, often referred to simply as Hoo, which is a sizable village and civil parish located in the Medway district of Kent. It is one of several villages on the Hoo Peninsula that share the name Hoo, a term of Saxon origin thought to mean "spur of land" or to describe the "distinct heel-shape of the ridge of hills" that runs through the area. Hoo is mentioned in the Domesday Book and had a population of 7,356 according to the 2001 census, which increased to 8,945 by the 2011 census. The civil parish also encompasses Chattenden to the west.

St Werburgh was the daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia, and niece of King Æthelred, his brother and successor. She was born between 640 and 650. The first church of Hoo may have been built in the reign of the 8th-century King Æthelbald of Mercia, though presumably a monastery existed nearby at an earlier time. This, together with land at Hoo All Hallows, is likely to have been placed under the rule of the leading Mercian monastery of Medeshamstede, now known as Peterborough.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Medway

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoo_St_Werburgh

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