The Frindsbury and Wainscott Community Association
The Association aims to improve, protect and preserve for the benefit of the public the community of Frindsbury and Wainscott.
The communities of Frindsbury and Wainscott nestle on the rural edge of the Medway Towns. Specifically the communities lie on the north bank of the River Medway and form part of the historic town of Rochester.
Frindsbury was known in the early medieval period either as Frecondesbyri, probably meaning the Freeman's Court, or as Eslingham, after a manor of that name within its boundaries a little further to the north. At one period it was the mother parish of Strood itself. The lands of the manor of Frindsbury which then extended much further to the north through Chattenden into what is now part of Cooling, were given at various times to the church of Rochester by the reigning Saxon kings during the years 764-89. Offa of Mercia was the chief benefactor. The estates were lost by the church during the Danish incursions, but restored to the Cathedral of St. Andrew after the accession of William the Conqueror. Location Map.
