This is Wateringbury, a little further upstream from the last bridge featured here on the River Medway. Today Wateringbury is a rather nondescript country village almost subsumed by nearby Maidstone (the county town for Kent). However, it has a noble history and was once a thriving centre of population and local industry, buoyed by the existence of the River Medway and the works to improve navigation in the 16th to 18th centuries. Not very much evidence of this remains very visible here today, sadly.
The 14th century bridge which once stood here has long since been replaced, the current rather workman-like structure dating from 1914. The Wateringbury Stream discharges into here by the bridge; at one time the Stream hosted three busy watermills, of which one remains but its location was not obvious to me.
It is still a rather busy spot - on the bank opposite to this mooring stands a major boat yard with crane and all the other facilities you might expect (I am now regretting not taking a decent photo of it all); the banks of the river behind me were lined with pleasure cruisers, and there was a caravan and camping site adjacent to the river path. A hundred metres from the bridge the Medway Valley train line crosses the road and there is an automated level crossing (much like the previous two bridges on the Medway).
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