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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 23 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GILLINGHAM , a municipal See also:

BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough of See also:

Kent, See also:

England, in the See also:

PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary borough of See also:

Chatham and the See also:

MID

mid-See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, on the See also:

MEDWAY

Medway immediately See also:

east of Chatham, on the See also:

South-Eastern & Chatham railway. Pop. (1891) 27,809; (1901) 42,530. Its See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population is largely See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial, employed in the Chatham See also:

DOCKYARDS

dockyards, and in See also:

CEMENT (from Lat. caementum, rough pieces of stone, a shortened form of caedimentum, from caedere, to cut)

cement and See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick See also:

WORKS

works in the neighbourhood. The See also:

church of St See also:

Mary Magdalene ranges in date from See also:

Early See also:

ENGLISH

English to Perpendicular, retaining also traces of See also:

Norman See also:

WORK

work and some early See also:

BRASSES, MONUMENTAL

brasses. A See also:

GREAT

great See also:

BATTLE

battle between See also:

Edmund Ironside and Canute, c. ro16, is placed here; and there was formerly a See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace of the archbishops of See also:

Canterbury. Gillingham was incorporated in 1903, and is governed by a See also:

mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. The borough includes the populous districts of See also:

BROMPTON

Brompton and New Brompton. See also:

AREA

Area, 4355 acres.

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