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    Strood is a town in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, South East England. The town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns Chatham, Rochester...
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    Rochester and Strood is a constituency in Kent represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Lauren Edwards from the Labour Party...
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    Mersea Island (redirect from The Strood)
    areas, West Mersea and East Mersea, and connected to the mainland by the Strood, a causeway that can flood at high tide. The island has been inhabited since...
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  • Strood Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Strood in the English county of Kent. Part of the main...
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    borough contains the towns of Chatham, Gillingham, Rainham, Rochester and Strood, which are collectively known as the Medway Towns. Medway is one of the...
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    Strood railway station serves the town of Strood in Medway, England. It is on the North Kent Line and is also a terminus of the Medway Valley Line. It...
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    politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Rochester and Strood since 2024. Edwards was born in Altona, Melbourne, Australia, and moved...
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    line linking Strood in the Medway Towns via Maidstone West to Tonbridge. High Speed services also link between Maidstone West, Snodland, Strood and London...
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    politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochester and Strood from 2015 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Minister...
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  • Strood Rural District was a rural district in the county of Kent, England. It was subject to boundary reforms in 1934 and 1935. It consisted of the following...
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    20 November 2014 for the UK parliamentary constituency of Rochester and Strood in Kent, England. The sitting Member of Parliament (MP) Mark Reckless called...
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    peninsula, linking the River Thames at Gravesend with the River Medway at Strood. The canal was first mooted in 1778 as a shortcut for military craft from...
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    The town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns Chatham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham. It is also the largest town in the borough of Medway. In 2020...
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    36 chains (53.8 km) down the line from London Charing Cross via Strood and is situated between Strood and Halling. The station and all trains that serve the station...
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    The town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns Chatham, Rainham, Strood and Gillingham. Rochester was a city until losing its status as one in 1998...
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  • as Britain First's first parliamentary candidate for the Rochester and Strood by-election on 20 November 2014, during which she expressed sympathy for...
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    Allsafety Limited. There are four Diggerland theme parks in the Uk located in Strood in Kent (opened in 2000), Langley Park in County Durham (opened in 2001)...
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    town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns Gillingham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham. In 2020 it had a population of 80,596. The town developed around...
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    Strood North and Frindsbury (3 seats) Party Candidate Votes % Labour Co-op Zoe Dyke* 1,774 53.4 Labour Co-op Stephen Hubbard* 1,758 52.9 Labour Co-op David...
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  • Medway, in the English county of Kent. All Faiths' Children's Academy, Strood All Saints CE Primary School, Chatham Balfour Infant School, Rochester Balfour...
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    part of Kent. It is contiguous with the fully urbanised Frindsbury part of Strood and is bounded by Cliffe and Cliffe Woods to the north, Hoo to the east...
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    passengers to Gravesend and to the seaside at Allhallows. On 10 February 1967 Strood Rural District Council made a compulsory purchase order to buy 86 acres...
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    Lewisham station in Greater London and runs to Rochester Bridge Junction near Strood, Medway where it links to the Chatham Main Line. The section from Charlton...
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    having previously served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochester and Strood from 2010 to 2015. Initially a member of the Conservative Party, he crossed...
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    475 51.6% 9,668 60.1% 14,807 24,475 3,312 986 3,867 47,447 Rochester and Strood KEN SE Con Con 31,151 60.0% 17,072 63.3% 31,151 14,079 3,717 1,312 1,667...
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    emphasised by UKIP winning two by-elections (in Clacton and Rochester and Strood, triggered by defecting Conservative MPs) in 2014. Both pro- and anti-EU...
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    the Medway Valley Line, 42 miles (68 km) from London Charing Cross via Strood between Aylesford and Maidstone West. The station and all trains serving...
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  • Johnston George Beglan Jonathan Essex Conservative Crispin Blunt Rochester and Strood Kelly Tolhurst Lauren Edwards Graham Colley Daniel Dabin Cat Jamieson Conservative...
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    part of the City of Rochester. Frindsbury today is part of the town of Strood and covers the most northern part of the town. Frindsbury refers to both...
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    Canterbury Christ Church University in 2017. He was a geography teacher at Strood Academy from July 2017 to August 2023 and Stone Lodge School from August...
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