Rochester and Strood (UK Parliament constituency) Rochester and Strood (UK Parliament constituency) Rochester and Strood is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Kelly Tolhurst, a Conservative. Rochester and Strood constituency is an urban and rural area in north Kent situated alongside the River Medway, which joins the Thames Estuary, becoming a wide salty and sea-like waterway at its northern river mouth. It spans two of the five Medway Towns: Rochester and Strood, and the villages in Strood Rural Ward and on the Hoo Peninsula. Medway (or Medway Towns) is the collective name for the municipal area, one
Black River (Chehalis River) Black River (Chehalis River) The Black River is a river in Thurston County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is approximately long with a drainage basin of about . The Black River's source is Black Lake, located about west of Tumwater. The river flows generally south, through the Mima Mounds State Natural Area, then southwest, passing by Rochester and entering Grays Harbor County, then emptying into the Chehalis River in the Chehalis Indian Reservation. The fur trader John Work was the first to describe the Black River in 1824: "The Black River so named from the colour of its