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Strood history
Pre-conquest
The Old English name Strōd refers to a “marshy land overgrown with brushwood” The Romans built a stone bridge and laid a road on a causeway across the marshy ground. Strood was part of Frindsbury until 1193.
Medieval
A small wooden church was erected at Strood in 1122, as a chapel of ease in the parish of Frindsbury. Land was granted in 1160 to the Knights Templar by King Henry II. In 1193, Strood became a parish.
Early Modern
Strood was owned by the Rochester monastery from the 18th year of Edward III’s reign until the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII. The Temple Manor was granted to Sir Robert Cecil, the Earl of Salisbury, who later became Lord Treasurer of England under Queen Elizabeth I. In 1554 Thomas Wyatt of Allington on hearing that the queen intended to marry a Catholic gathered an army with the intention of marching on London.
Nineteenth century
Between 1804 and 1824 the Thames and Medway canal was dug. See below, under Transport, for more details about the canal.
Twentieth century
The ancient City of Rochester merged with the borough of Chatham and part of the Strood Rural District in 1974 to form the Borough of Medway. In 1998 another merger with the rest of the Medway Towns created the Medway unitary authority.
Twenty-first century
Strood is a town in its own right with a population in 2019 estimated at 40,000. However, it is also officially a suburb of Rochester, although a very large suburb. Strood the suburb is more heavily populated than its post town Rochester on the east side of the Medway.
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