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Rochester is a large town in Kent, England, at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway about 30 miles (50 km) from London. With Chatham, Gillingham, Strood and a number of outlying villages it makes up the Borough of Medway.

Rochester and its neighbours, Chatham and Gillingham, form a single large urban area known as the Medway Towns with a population of about 250,000. However, Rochester has always governed land on the other side of the Medway in Strood. This was known as Strood Intra, before 1835,it was about 100 yds wide and stretched to Gun Lane.In the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act the boundaries were extended to include more of Strood and Frindsbury,and part of Chatham known as Chatham Intra. In 1974, Rochester City council was renamed and extended to include the parishes of Cuxton, Halling and Cliffe, and the Hoo Peninsula.