page_title: Strood
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Strood / Transport
caption_attribution_description: Amalgam of Strood and Frindsbury 1863 OS XIX 2 1st Edit, Hand coloured with line showing division between Frindsbury Camera location51°&#160;23′&#160;24″&#160;N, 0°&#160;29′&#160;24″&#160;E&#160;View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth
context_page_description: Strood is a town in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, South East England. It lies on the northwest bank of the River Medway at its lowest bridging point, and is part of the Rochester post town.
  Strood began as a manor then chapelry of Frindsbury until gaining its own parish status in 1193. Today Frindsbury is effectively, in all but a few associations such as in the Church of England, the northern part of Strood. Strood's history has been dominated by the river and facing port-associated towns, particularly its road and rail bridges since the Roman era to Rochester and the two other Medway Towns immediately adjoining and beyond from the north-east quarter of Kent to London and the rest of Britain. It has a mixed retail and leisure area at its heart. Most of its sources of employment are the other Medway towns, their associated commercial, industrial and logistics parks and London, as an outer commuter town.
  Among its broadest named neighbourhoods are the "Earl estate" and Marlowe Park, one named after a house builder, the other after the grounds of a former mansion house.
caption: 1863 Map of Strood and Frindsbury: note the undrained land between the railway and Frindsbury Hill, the creeks behind the Civic Centre and the lack of houses.
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