Aylesford
Aylesford is a town and civil parish on the River Medway in Kent, 4 miles NW of Maidstone in England. Initially a small riverside settlement, the old town consists of about 60 homes, most of which were previously stores. Two clubs, a town shop and also various other amenities including a hairdresser, estate representative, 2 restaurants, a chiropodist as well as a coffeehouse lie on the high street. Aylesford's current population is about 5,000. The Parish of Aylesford covers more than 7 square miles, extending north to Rochester Airport estate and also southern to Barming, as well as has a total population of over 10,000 (as of 2011), with the main negotiations at Aylesford, Eccles, Blue Bell Hillside Village and (part of) Walderslade. Aylesford Newsprint was a long-established significant employer in the area as well as was the biggest paper reusing manufacturing facility in Europe, making newsprint for the newspaper industry. In 2015, Aylesford Paper Mill, as it was known by neighborhood homeowners, was shut down and also removed of all its properties. Several neighborhood households that had actually been utilized there, in some cases for numerous generations, were affected.
