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Rainham (/ ˈ r eɪ n ə m / RAY-nəm) is a town in the unitary authority area of Medway, in the ceremonial county of Kent, England. The town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns Chatham , Rochester , Strood and Gillingham .
Rainham railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in South East England, serving the town of Rainham, Kent.It is 38 miles 74 chains (62.6 km) down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Gillingham and Newington.
Along the London road at Rainham is a small hamlet, now part of the town itself, known as Rainham Mark. Here once stood an ancient boundary stone , near The Hops and Vine public house – formerly The Belisha Beacon – and since replaced by a milestone that, traditionally, marks the division of Kent into its eastern and western zones.
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
Rainham may refer to: Rainham, Kent, Medway, England Rainham railway station (Kent) Rainham, London, London Borough of Havering, England
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.
Rainham (/ ˈ r eɪ n ə m / RAY-nəm) is a suburb of East London, England, in the London Borough of Havering. [2] Historically an ancient parish in the county of Essex, Rainham is 13.6 miles (21.9 km) east of Charing Cross [2] and is surrounded by a residential area, which has grown from the historic village, to the north and a commercial area, fronting the River Thames, to the south.
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.