![Sarum Missal, 16th century](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717576516301-5PZWW8DZPKIM5P8AYQ09/2023-01-17%2B12.07.54.jpg)
Sarum Missal, 16th century
Rochester Cathedral Chapter Library volunteer Beverley Jacobs leafs through the 16th-century Sarum Missal, a remnant from the final days of the Priory Library.
![The Danelaw, 9th-11th century](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717576793370-7CW4S2CAH0VSZVIM031S/Untitled.png)
The Danelaw, 9th-11th century
Dr Alexander Thomas introduces the Danelaw; an 11th-century name for the areas of Northern and Eastern England in which the laws of the Danish Viking empire from the late 9th century until the early 11th century.
![Rochester Castle watergate, c.1380](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717585472456-VRWUJXW15EAWVTL2MM3Z/9001%2B%2B2.jpg)
Rochester Castle watergate, c.1380
The north-west curtain wall of Rochester Castle forms a bastion, or projection, at the point where the medieval Rochester Bridge crossed the Medway. An excavation in 2017 revealed the watergate in the west face of the bastion for the first time in decades.
![Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf, 1067-1088](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717586074638-D87UNF6O5EC0T87KQ2LN/castle.jpg)
Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf, 1067-1088
Archaeologist Alan Ward discusses what we know - or what little we know - about Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf (1067-1088).
![Black Boy Alley, Rochester: Origin and heritage→](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65df7835178a9d2b20f8d501/1717521465341-W67VTCL6GN8QN9NXBVLQ/2020-11-12_black_boy_alley_thumbnail.png)
Black Boy Alley, Rochester: Origin and heritage→
Jacob Scott investigates the origins of the name of an alley in Rochester.
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