River Medway - Tributaries

Tributaries

- The major tributaries are:

• River Eden
• River Bourne, known as the River Shode and River Busty
• River Teise, major sub tributary River Bewl.
• River Beult
• Loose Stream
• River Len

Minor tributaries include:

• The Wateringbury Stream
• The East Malling Stream

Former minor tributaries include the Old Bourne River, that flowed through the Brook, Chatham (not to be confused with the main tributary River Bourne).

The river and its tributaries flow through largely rural areas, Tonbridge, Maidstone and Medway being the exceptions. The Medway itself initially flows in a west-east direction south of the North Downs; at the confluence of the River Beult, however, it turns northerly and breaks through the North Downs at the Medway Gap, a steep and narrow valley near Rochester, before its final section to the sea.