Aylesford
Aylesford is a village and also civil parish on the River Medway in Kent, 4 miles NW of Maidstone in England. Originally a little riverside settlement, the old town consists of about 60 houses, most of which were formerly shops. Two clubs, a village store and other amenities consisting of a hairdresser, estate agent, 2 restaurants, a chiropodist and a coffee shop lie on the high street. Aylesford's current population is around 5,000. The Church of Aylesford covers greater than 7 square miles, stretching north to Rochester Airport estate and southern to Barming, and has an overall population of over 10,000 (as of 2011), with the major settlements at Aylesford, Eccles, Blue Bell Hill Village as well as (part of) Walderslade. Aylesford Newsprint was a long-established significant company in the area and was the largest paper recycling factory in Europe, manufacturing newspaper for the newspaper market. In 2015, Aylesford Paper Mill, as it was known by neighborhood citizens, was shut down and also stripped of all its possessions. Several local households who had actually been utilized there, occasionally for a number of generations, were impacted.
