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Park Wood or Parkwood is a housing estate and district in Gillingham at the south-eastern corner of the Medway conurbation in Kent, England. It was built mainly during the 1960s and 1970s, largely by Ward Homes, and originally called Rainham Park. [1] Parkwood is bordered by Wigmore to the west, Rainham to the north, and the M2 motorway to the
Historically, Rainham was a separate village. In 1921 the civil parish had a population of 4335. [2] On 1 April 1929 the parish was abolished and merged with Gillingham [3] and became part of the Municipal Borough of Gillingham, which was originally created in 1903 and was grouped into the latter's built-up area in analysis of the 2011 census by the Office for National Statistics. [4]
Gillingham (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ l ɪ ŋ əm / ⓘ JIL-ing-əm) is a town in Kent, England, which forms a conurbation with neighbouring Chatham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham. It is the largest town in the borough of Medway and in 2020 had a population of 108,785.
Medway is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Kent in South East England.It was formed in 1998 by merging the boroughs of Rochester-upon-Medway and Gillingham, and is administered by Medway Council, which is independent from Kent County Council.
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, Gillingham and Rainham. It lies on the northwest bank of the River Medway at its lowest bridging point. Strood began as a manor then chapelry of Frindsbury until gaining its own parish status ...
Gillingham and Rainham is a constituency [n 1] in Kent represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Naushabah Khan of the Labour Party. [2] [n 2] It was previously represented since its 2010 creation by Rehman Chishti of the Conservative Party and replaced the previous constituency of Gillingham.
1950–1983: The Municipal Borough of Gillingham. 1983–1997: The Borough of Gillingham, and the Borough of Swale ward of Hartlip and Upchurch. 1997–2010: The Borough of Gillingham. The constituency was based around the towns of Gillingham and Rainham, which at that time were in Kent.
The placename is attested in 1275 as Wydemere, from an Old English *wīd-mere "broad pool". [1]A sparsely-populated hamlet and farming area until the 20th century, Wigmore was briefly the site of a smallpox isolation hospital (Alexandra Hospital) from 1902, [2] and began to be developed as a suburb from 1906 when the 365-acre Wigmore agricultural estate was partitioned and sold as plots, [3 ...