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 comprises about 60 homes, a lot of which were formerly stores. 2 clubs, a village store and also various other services consisting of a beautician, estate representative, 2 restaurants, a chiropodist and also a coffee bar lie on the high street. Aylesford's present population is about 5,000. The Church of Aylesford covers more than 7 square miles, extending north to Rochester Airport estate and southern to Barming, and also has an overall population of over 10,000 (since 2011), with the primary negotiations at Aylesford, Eccles, Blue Bell Hillside Village as well as (part of) Walderslade. Aylesford Newsprint was a long-established major company in the location and also was the biggest paper recycling manufacturing facility in Europe, making newspaper for the newspaper sector. In 2015, Aylesford Paper Mill, as it was known by regional homeowners, was shut down and stripped of all its possessions. Several regional families who had actually been utilized there, sometimes for a number of generations, were influenced.