Aylesford is a village as well as civil parish on the River Medway in Kent, 4 miles NW of Maidstone in England. Originally a small waterfront settlement, the old village makes up about 60 homes, most of which were previously shops. Two bars, a town shop as well as various other features including a hairdresser, estate agent, 2 restaurants, a chiropodist and a coffeehouse lie on the high street. Aylesford's existing population is about 5,000. The Church of Aylesford covers more than seven square miles, stretching north to Rochester Airport estate and south to Barming, and has a complete population of over 10,000 (since 2011), with the major settlements at Aylesford, Eccles, Blue Bell Hill Town and also (part of) Walderslade. Aylesford Newsprint was a long-standing significant employer in the area as well as was the biggest paper reusing manufacturing facility in Europe, producing newspaper for the paper sector. In 2015, Aylesford Paper Mill, as it was recognized by local residents, was closed down and also stripped of all its properties. Several neighborhood households who had actually been utilized there, often for a number of generations, were impacted.