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Explore the history and discover interesting facts about Rochester.
10 Great Reasons to Join Us
The City of Rochester Society was founded in 1967 to help conserve the historic City as a pleasant place to visit. The Society is still active today, helping to improve the environment and quality of life in Rochester for residents and visitors alike.
Celebrity Rochester
Celebrity is often thought of as a modern invention. But if we delve back into Rochester’s past, there have always been persons of prominence and renown associated with the City. We’ve attempted to cover as many of these people as possible on the site but please do get in touch if you think we’ve missed someone.
Rochester City Status
The first Royal Charter to recognise Rochester’s city status was granted during the reign of King Henry III in 1227. In 1998 city status lapsed after Rochester upon Medway City Council and Gillingham Borough Council were abolished and a new unitary authority created for the whole of the Medway Towns.
Hidden Rochester
Rochester is full of amazing historical buildings and heritage sites. Most of these are well known and feature in all the usual tourist leaflets. But there are many hidden gems and we hope to cover many of these in this section of the website.
A Brief History of the City
Rochester is a city of great antiquity. There was a settlement of some importance here well before the Roman occupation of Britain in AD43. It was also the point where the ancient highway which later became part of the Roman Watling Street, forded the River Medway.
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