There is one small airport, Rochester Airport, but this is a "grass strip" and used for leisure purposes. For air travel, Medway residents must use Kent's main airports Kent International (Manston) or Lydd but these lack extensive passenger facilities or routes, thus the London Airports are used the vast majority of the time (mainly Gatwick, Heathrow, Luton and Stansted)

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Leisure and recreation

• The Black Lion Leisure Centre in Gillingham is a sub-regional sports centre with three indoor pools for swimming and SCUBA diving, gym, fitness centre, sports hall and squash courts. It includes the Jumpers Rebound Centre for trampolining. Funding has been secured to extensively upgrade the Black Lion Leisure Centre as part of the Medway 2012 programme to secure local benefits from the London Olympics.
• The Strand Leisure Park in Gillingham has an open-air swimming pool on the banks of the River Medway as well as other leisure attractions including tennis courts and a narrow-gauge railway.
• Strood Sports Centre in has an indoor swimming pool, gym, sports hall, squash courts and an astroturf sports pitch.
• Rainham has a leisure pool (The Splashes) with a flume and a wave machine.
• Gillingham has an ice rink, The Ice Bowl.
• Gillingham F.C. is the main football team of the area.
• John Nike Ski Centre - located in Capstone near Hempstead

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Local youth organisations

• Medway Towns Sea Cadet Unit - T.S. Cornwallis including Field Gun Crew
• 12th Gillingham (Garrison) Scout Group - Beaver Scouts, Cub Scouts and Scouts
• 4th Medway(Salvation Army) Scout Group - Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers - at the Salvation Army, Chatham town centre, for young people aged 6-18 years.
• 21st Medway Scout Group, Rochester, Medway, Kent - Scouts, Cub Scouts and Beaver Scouts for girls and boys aged 6 - 14 years old.

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Twin towns

Medway is twinned with:^[5]

• — Valenciennes (France) (existing since 1955 making it the 2nd oldest such twinning in the UK)
• — Yokosuka and Itō (Japan)
• — Cadiz (Spain)

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References

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External links

• Medway Council
• Bob Marshall-Andrews MP
• Detailed history of the Medway Towns
• The Medway Portal
• Berengrave Local Nature Reserve
• Chatham's World Heritage Site application

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