Aylesford
Aylesford is a town as well as civil parish on the River Medway in Kent, 4 miles NW of Maidstone in England. Initially a little waterfront settlement, the old town makes up around 60 residences, most of which were formerly shops. 2 clubs, a village shop as well as various other services including a hairdresser, estate agent, two restaurants, a chiropodist and also a coffee shop are located on the high street. Aylesford's present population is around 5,000. The Parish of Aylesford covers greater than seven square miles, extending north to Rochester Airport estate and south to Barming, and also has a total population of over 10,000 (since 2011), with the major settlements at Aylesford, Eccles, Blue Bell Hill Town and (part of) Walderslade. Aylesford Newsprint was a long-established major employer in the area and also was the biggest paper recycling manufacturing facility in Europe, producing newspaper for the newspaper industry. In 2015, Aylesford Paper Mill, as it was recognized by neighborhood homeowners, was shut down as well as stripped of all its properties. Many regional family members who had been employed there, occasionally for numerous generations, were influenced.