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Local history

up arrow : go up one level Local history
Village histories
Allhallows:
  • The Story of an Outpost Parish – Allhallows, Hoo, Kent by Frederic John Hammond.
Aylesford, Burham, Wouldham, Eccles:
  • Five Medway Villages by Winifred Bergess and Stephen Sage. Meresborough Books, 1983.
Borstal:
  • Borstal – Past and Present: a History of St Matthew’s Church and the Village of Borstal by Norman Clout. T.H. Printers and Partners, Rochester, 1978.
Cliffe and Cooling:
  • A Pictorial History of Cooling and Cliffe by Allan Cherry. Martins News, 2001.
Cuxton:
  • Cuxton: a Kentish Village by Derek Church. A.J. Cassell Ltd, 1976.
Grain:
  • History of the Isle of Grain by Charles Buxton Burnett, 1906.
Hoo:
  • Hoo St.Werburgh in Old Picture Postcards by D. Worsdale, 1984; The Story of the Hoo Peninsula by Philip MacDougall. Hallewell, 1980.
Luton:
  • Cabbage Island: a Local History of the Parish of Luton, Kent by Alan Heard, 1994.
  • The Story of Luton by Sydney Turner, 1952.
Rainham:
  • A Picture Hstory of Old Rainham by Barbara Mackay-Miller. Meresborough, 1982.
Strood:
  • Strood: a Pictorial History by Avril Bloomfield. Meresborough, 1977;
  • A History of Strood Rural District by Brian Matthews. SRDC, 1971;
  • Merrily to Frendsbury by D. Barnard. City of Rochester Society, 1996;
  • The History of Strood by Henry Smetham. John Hallewell, 1978 (originally published 1899).

For further information contact:
email icon Email : malsc@medway.gov.uk
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01634 332714

Mail icon Write to : Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre
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Strood
Rochester
Kent ME2 4AU
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01634 333111


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