Notes on the history of Rochester

Transcripts, articles and notes relating to the history of Rochester.

• The city

  Notes on the history of the city of Rochester.

• The cathedral church

  Notes on the history of the cathedral church of Saint Andrew of Rochester.

• The castle

  Notes on the history of Rochester castle.

• The bridge

  Notes on the earliest recorded bridge – presumably Roman – at Rochester.

• Congresses and meetings at Rochester

  Reports of archaeological congresses and meetings held at Rochester between 1853 and 1886.

• Maps of the city and suburbs in 1861–3

  Details from the 1:500 Ordnance Survey map of Chatham, Rochester and Strood, surveyed in 1861–3 and published in 54 sheets in 1866–7.

• Nineteenth-century directories of Rochester

  Extracts from some nineteenth-century directories covering the city of Rochester and its environs.

• Hasted’s Rochester

  Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, volume 2 (Canterbury, 1782), pages 1–64. The signs <+> and <e> refer to the additions and errata at the back of the book.

• Hasted’s Rochester revised

  Edward Hasted, The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent, second edition, volume 4 (Canterbury, 1798), pages 45–191. Text printed grey is derived from the previous edition; text printed black is significantly different or altogether new. The sign <+> refers to the additions at the back of the book.