Royal Navy Bases - Royal Navy Bases Outside the United Kingdom, Royal Navy Dockyards, Frindsbury, Sembawang, Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Royal Navy Bases Outside the United Kingdom, Royal Navy Dockyards, Frindsbury, Sembawang, Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda, Weihai, List of Air Stations of the Royal Navy, Hms Tamar, Shipbuilding in Frindsbury, Kent, Naval Air Station, Port Hamilton, Mobile Naval Air Bases, Fort St Angelo, Hms Mosquito, List of Fleet Bases of the Royal Navy. Excerpt: Frindsbury is part of the Medway Towns conurbation in Kent, southern England. It lies on the opposite side of the River Medway to Rochester, and at various times in its history has been considered fully or partially part of the City of Rochester. Frindsbury refers to both a parish and a manor. Within the civil parish of Frindsbury Extra are the villages of Frindsbury, Wainscott, and Upnor. Frindsbury was also the name given to an electoral ward in the City of Rochester that straddled the parishes of Frindsbury and Strood. Frindsbury started as a small agricultural community, grew into a significant industrial centre and declined into a dormitory suburb, each generation erasing the traces of the previous. Frindsbury Church from Church Green, showing behind the chalk cliffs formed by quarrying. In the far distance is Chatham, showing how closely the Medway Towns are interlinked.Frindsbury lies on the northwest bank of the Medway at its lowest bridging point. After a narrow but marshy coastal strip, the land rises steeply to plateau at about 100 ft. This was a sheet of chalk covered by brickearth covered with topsoil. Over the last two millennia, much of this was stripped away, or mined, so the contours have constantly changed. Through the centre of this ran a shallow valley carrying a stream draining the Hoo Peninsula behind, through Islingham to Whitewall creek where it entered the Medway. This wa... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8053643