Museum · near Gillingham · Kent

PS Medway Queen

PS Medway Queen is a 1924 paddle steamer. The site is 400 m north of Gillingham. Management falls to Royal Navy.

Photo: PS Medway Queen, Chris Allen (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Where

400 m

north of Gillingham

Run by

Royal Navy

the operator on record

How well known

Top 23%

#1,932 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 17–23°C

In brief

Museum near Gillingham

Just outside Gillingham

PS Medway Queen is 400 m north of Gillingham. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

The weather, month by month

In Gillingham, May to September bring the warmest days: highs of 17–23°C.

Jan8° / 2°63 mm

Feb8° / 2°48 mm

Mar11° / 4°39 mm

Apr14° / 5°44 mm

May17° / 8°47 mm

Jun20° / 11°48 mm

Jul23° / 13°43 mm

Aug23° / 13°51 mm

Sep20° / 11°51 mm

Oct15° / 8°72 mm

Nov11° / 5°71 mm

Dec8° / 3°65 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Gillingham, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Gillingham. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Gillingham’s full climate →

About

PS Medway Queen

It is written up in 4 Wikipedias. A short trip away is Rochester Cathedral, 4.6 km off, the first of 63 within 15 km.

Type: Museum
Run by: Royal Navy
Wikipedias: Covered in 4 languages
Town: 400 m north of Gillingham
Official site: medwayqueen.co.uk

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Getting to PS Medway Queen

PS Medway Queen sits at the orange dot; the numbered ones are listed below.

Towns near it

Towns that count PS Medway Queen

Gillingham is the biggest of the 7 bases nearby (108,485 people). The town it is in comes first, then the others whose pages list it, nearest first.

1 · 400 m south of it

Gillingham

108,485 people · 33 places to visit

2 · 1.1 km north of it

Hoo St Werburgh

8,758 people · 25 places to visit

3 · 2.4 km southwest of it

Chatham

76,956 people · 37 places to visit

4 · 2.5 km northwest of it

Lower Upnor

837 people · 27 places to visit

Compare the 7 towns

Town	Where PS Medway Queen is	People	Places to visit
Gillingham	400 m south of it	108,485	33
Hoo St Werburgh	1.1 km north of it	8,758	25
Chatham	2.4 km southwest of it	76,956	37
Lower Upnor	2.5 km northwest of it	837	27
Chattenden	2.7 km northwest of it	2,417	24
Rochester	3.1 km west of it	67,279	34
Upchurch	5 km southeast of it	1,727	2

Make a day of it

Also near PS Medway Queen

Also close at hand are 3 historic ships, 2 castles and a cathedral, among 63 within 15 km.

CathedralRochester Cathedral4.6 km away 2

Castle · English HeritageRochester Castle4.7 km away 3

Castle · English HeritageUpnor Castle2.9 km away 4

Historic shipHMS Cavalier2.8 km away 5

Historic shipHMS Gannet2.8 km away 6

Historic shipHMS Ocelot2.8 km away 7

FortCockham Wood Fort1.7 km away 8

MuseumRoyal Engineers Museum2.2 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Visiting PS Medway Queen: the answers

Where is PS Medway Queen?

PS Medway Queen is 400 m north of Gillingham, Kent.

What is PS Medway Queen?

1924 paddle steamer.

Who runs PS Medway Queen?

Royal Navy.

When is the best time to visit PS Medway Queen?

May to September are the warmest months in Gillingham, with afternoon highs of 17–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near PS Medway Queen?

Within 15 km: Rochester Cathedral (4.6 km), Rochester Castle (4.7 km), Upnor Castle (2.9 km) and HMS Cavalier (2.8 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

PS Medway Queen: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Rochester Cathedral: Raggatt2000, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Rochester Castle: Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Upnor Castle: Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
HMS Cavalier: en:User:Swpmre, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
HMS Gannet: Paul Englefield from Leamington Spa, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
HMS Ocelot: Mark.murphy at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Cockham Wood Fort: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Royal Engineers Museum: Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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