His son Charlie Allen also plays professional football for Gillingham.

Stuart James Nelson ( born 17 September 1981 ) is an English footballer who plays for Football League Two side Gillingham.

John Gillingham, author of a major biography of Richard I, follows this line too, although he considers John a less effective general than do Turner or Warren ; Bradbury takes a moderate line, but suggests that in recent years modern historians have been overly lenient towards John's numerous faults.

Gillingham notes that Roger of Howden's chronicle is the main source for Richard's activities in this period, although he notes that it records the successes of the campaign ; it was on this campaign that Richard acquired the name " Richard the Lionheart ".

Harvey's argument has gained considerable support ; however, this view has been disputed by other historians, most notably John Gillingham.

Shown are the events near Gillingham: in the middle Royal Charles is taken ; on the right Pro Patria and Schiedam set Matthias and Charles V alight

… I am a Kentish man, born in a town called Gillingham, two English miles from Rochester, one mile from Chatham, where the King's ships do lie: from the age of twelve years old, I was brought up in Limehouse near London, being Apprentice twelve years to Master Nicholas Diggins ; and myself have served for Master and Pilot in her Majesty's ships ; and about eleven or twelve years have served the Worshipfull Company of the Barbary Merchants, until the Indish traffic from Holland began, in which Indish traffic I was desirous to make a little experience of the small knowledge which God had given me.

The town, as part of Medway, is surrounded by two circles of fortresses ; the inner line built during the Napoleonic wars consists of Fort Clarence, Fort Pitt, Fort Amherst and Fort Gillingham.

Gillingham has had a brass band since 1928 ; they are currently nationally graded in the 3rd Section, and perform at civic events and carnivals.

At the time of the Norman Conquest, Gillingham was a small hamlet ; It was given to his half-brother, Odo, Bishop of Bayeux which rebuilt the Parish Church at Gillingham and constructed an Archbishop ’ s Palace on land bordered by Grange Road, the ruins of which could still be seen last century.

Fort Amherst was the first to be improved ; it was followed by work beginning in 1800 to add others at Fort Pitt, Chatham, plus Fort Delce and Fort Clarence ( both in Rochester ); later in the 19th century others were added, including one at Fort Darland in Gillingham.

Gillingham was still only a small village ; eventually it, too, was swallowed up, and the name of the whole settlement changed to Gillingham.

Gillingham has been the scene of two notable disasters: on 11 July 1929 a public demonstration by Gillingham Fire Brigade went wrong, resulting in 15 fatalities ; and in the 1951 Gillingham bus disaster, 24 Royal Marine cadets aged 10 to 13 were killed in a road accident.

The Roman road now known as Watling Street passed through Gillingham ; and until the opening of the Medway Towns bypass ( the M2 motorway ) in the mid-1960s the same route was followed by the traffic on the A2 to Dover.

Ashurst did precisely that, finishing in 11th in 1973 – 74 ; he then left the club to manage Gillingham.

Shown are the events near Gillingham: in the middle Royal Charles is taken ; on the right Pro Patria and Schiedam set Matthias and Charles V alight

In 1547 Jillingham ( Gillingham ) water, as Chatham Dockyard was then known, is mentioned as second only in importance to Deptford ; followed by Woolwich, Portsmouth and Harwich.

The Isle of Grain, then a complete island, was in the Hundred of Gillingham ; the remainder of the parish of Stoke was in the Hundred of Shamel.

In 1903 he patented a gyroscopically-balanced monorail system that he designed for military use ; he successfully demonstrated the system on 10 November 1909, at Gillingham, England, but fears that the gyroscopes might fail prevented adoption of the system for widespread use.

Lines through Dorset include the South Western Main Line, from London to Bournemouth, Poole, Dorchester and Weymouth ; the Heart of Wessex Line from Bristol to Sherborne, Dorchester and Weymouth ; the West of England Main Line from London to Exeter, with stations at Sherborne and Gillingham ; and the now dismantled Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway from Bath to Bournemouth.

In June 1667 they conducted their Raid on the Medway, broke the defensive chain at Gillingham, and towed away the, one of the Royal Navy's most important ships.

Over a mile long, they stretched across the neck of the dockyard peninsula, from Chatham Reach, south of the dockyard, across to Gillingham Reach on the opposite side.

Monck then decided also to sink off ships in Upnor Reach near Upnor Castle, presenting another barrier to the Dutch should they break through the chain at Gillingham.

It was built through the will of Roger Gillingham of the Middle Temple, who left property in Bedfordshire, Hackney and Stepney to trustees, in assurance that they would raise £ 400 for a close next to Pamphill Green.

The Kent League, allowed them to use the Garrison Ground in Kings Bastian for several matches, before they could arrange a brief ground-share with Gillingham at Priestfield Stadium.

In the 1999-2000 Football League Cup West Ham United were ordered to replay a match they had won against Aston Villa, after bringing on as a substitute Emmanuel Omoyinmi, who had appeared for Gillingham in an earlier round.

In the 2005-06 FA Cup competition they beat league side Gillingham 3-2 at home in the first round.

Based near Sevenoaks, Kent they have two sites, one in Sevenoaks and the other in Gillingham.

Although they struggled in the Conference, only twice finishing above 11th place in 14 seasons, they did enjoy cup success during this period, reaching the first round proper of the FA Cup in six successive seasons, on one occasion memorably knocking out Kent ’ s only Football League side, Gillingham.

Over a century later, during the 1997 – 98 and 1998 – 99 seasons Brighton & Hove Albion played their home matches at Priestfield, as they had entered a ground-share agreement with Gillingham as a result of the sale of their Goldstone Ground to property developers.

During his time at Dover Athletic, he guided the club to their greatest-ever FA Cup run, reaching the third-round proper, where they lost at Huddersfield 2-0 in January 2011, having won a memorable first-round proper game at Kent neighbours Gillingham 2-0 in the first round and beating Aldershot 2-0 at home in the second round.

Gillingham experiences an oceanic climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfb ) similar to almost all of the United Kingdom.

It flows south into Dorset through the Blackmore Vale and the towns of Gillingham and Sturminster Newton.

The railway line through Fawkham station was electrified in 1939 with electric trains operating between Victoria and Gillingham.

It passes through the towns of Wimborne and Gillingham, and the villages of Stourton, Bourton, Silton, Milton-on-Stour, Ecclife, West Stour, Stour Provost, Fifehead Magdalen, Marnhull, Sturminster Newton, Child Okeford, Stourpaine, Bryanston, Blandford St. Mary, Charlton Marshall, Shapwick, Oakley, Canford Magna, Knighton, Dudsbury and Holdenhurst.

Some of the players who left the GLRU during the 2000s were: Andre Vos, Rassie Erasmus, Joe Gillingham, Andre Pretorius, Willie Wepener, Ethienne Reyneke, Thinus Delport, Schalk Brits, Wikus van Heerden, Gcobani Bobo, Conrad Jantjies, Gerhard Mostert, Anton van Zyl, Jaco Pretorius, Gerhard Vosloo, Joe van Niekerk, Wayne Julies, Ernst Joubert, Enrico Januarie, with players such as Rory Kockot being lost through the unions youth system.

The Salisbury and Yeovil Railway ( S & YR ) opened the second part of its line on 7 May 1860, extending eastwards from Gillingham through Templecombe to.

Quinn missed the play-off final replay versus Gillingham through injury, but Swindon sealed promotion to the Second Division.

At the same time an area of land in Gillingham was acquired by the club's founders, the purchase being funded through an issue of 1, 500 £ 1 shares.

He took up a similar role at Gillingham in November 2010.

Rochester, together with neighbouring Chatham, Gillingham, Strood and a number of outlying villages, makes up the Medway unitary authority area.

Caddel was born in Bedford and grew up in Gillingham, Kent.

In 1667 a Dutch fleet sailed up the River Medway and, having landed at Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey and laying siege to the fort at Sheerness, invaded Gillingham in what became known as the raid on the Medway.

Since the ' 80s, Gillingham has rebuilt its economic base and the Gillingham Business Park was set up from the town centre, in order to attract investments and diversify economic activity.

Cheltenham opened up the 2007 – 08 season with a 1 – 0 win against Gillingham, but suffered an early exit to Southend United 4 – 1 from the League Cup.

Having grown up in Kent, Clarke played cricket for Babes of Kent schoolboys and supports Gillingham.

Automatic resulting trusts can arise when the settlor tries to set up a trust for a third party, but there is an initial failure for want of objects ; for example, by naming beneficiaries which cannot be defined, as in Morice v Bishop of Durham 1805 10 Ves 522, or when the objectives of the trust no longer become possible or relevant by the time of the transfer to the trustee, as in Re Gillingham Bus Disaster Fund Ch 300.

After leaving Gillingham, Lomas took up a coaching role at Norwich City before managing St Neots Town.

On 30 October, Barnard scored a 93rd minute winner against Gillingham, he followed that up with another last minute goal, this time from the penalty spot against Milton Keynes Dons in the 2 – 1 win.

They can prey on toads or frogs up to 95 mm long, snakes up to 247 mm long, birds up to the size of a sparrow, and both field and house mice ( Wells-Cole 1898 ; Okeden 1903 ; Shugg 1961 ; Cloudsley Thompson 1968 ; Easterla 1975 ; Clark 1979 ; Lewis 1981 ; McCormick and Polis 1982 ; Carpenter and Gillingham 1984 ).