Rochester United Kingdom

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : Take a tour of the historic English city of Rochester, compliments of oszibusz. The video opens with a shot of the Rochester Cathedral, one of the oldest churches in the UK, followed by an overhead of the Rochester Bridge, which crosses the River Medway. Starting at the :25 mark, there's a magnificent shot of Rochester Castle, whose 12th-century keep is considered one of the best-preserved in the country. You'll also see some of the scuttled ships and boats of the Medway as well as the decommissioned Soviet submarine U-475 Black Widow.

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Rochester is a town and was a historic city in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, England. It is at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway about 30 miles (50 km) from London. Rochester was for many years a favourite of Charles Dickens, who owned nearby Gads Hill Place, Higham, basing many of his novels on the area. The Diocese of Rochester, the second oldest in England, is centred on Rochester Cathedral and was responsible for the founding of a school, now The King's School in 604 AD,[3] which is recognised as being the second oldest continuously running school in the world. Rochester Castle, built by Bishop Gundulf of Rochester, has one of the best-preserved keeps in either England or France, and during the First Barons' War (1215–1217) in King John's reign, baronial forces captured the castle from Archbishop Stephen Langton and held it against the king, who then besieged it.