Chatham

Chatham

Chatham city (1991 pop. 65,035), Kent, SE England, on the Medway River. Chatham, Rochester, and Gillingham form a contiguous urban area known as the Medway Towns. Chatham is a major naval station, with well-equipped dockyards, dry docks, and shipbuilding and repairing equipment. There are also flour mills and timber works. The Royal Naval Dockyard is the largest installation. The first dockyard was established by Elizabeth I in 1588. The Roman Watling Street ran through Chatham.

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Chatham, Canada, UK, USA 1. Canada (Ontario): named after the English Chatham while that in New Brunswick is named after William Pitt (Pitt the Elder) (1708–78), 1st Earl of Chatham, twice the British Prime Minister in all but name (1756–61, 1766–8).2. UK (England): ‘Village at Chet’ from the Celtic cēd ‘wood’ and hām.

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Chatham city (1991 pop. 43,557), S Ont., Canada, E of Detroit, Mich., on the Thames River. It is an industrial center in a rich mixed farming and fruit-raising region. It was a northern terminus for the Underground Railroad prior to the American Civil War.

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Chatham, ‘homestead or village in or by the wood’, Celtic *cę̄d + OE hām: Chatham Medway. Cetham 880, Ceteham 1086 (DB). Chatham Green Essex. Cetham 1086 (DB).

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