Aylesford is a town 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 around 60 residences, a lot of which were formerly shops. 2 clubs, a village store and also other features consisting of a stylist, estate agent, two restaurants, a chiropodist and also a cafe lie on the high street. Aylesford's current population is around 5,000. The Church of Aylesford covers more than 7 square miles, stretching north to Rochester Airport estate and south to Barming, as well as has an overall population of over 10,000 (as of 2011), with the major negotiations at Aylesford, Eccles, Blue Bell Hill Town and (part of) Walderslade. Aylesford Newsprint was a long-standing significant company in the location as well as was the largest paper reusing manufacturing facility in Europe, making newsprint for the newspaper industry. In 2015, Aylesford Paper Mill, as it was known by neighborhood citizens, was shut down as well as stripped of all its possessions. Several regional family members that had been employed there, often for numerous generations, were impacted.