Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Aylesford. You may be able to find further references to Aylesford in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Aylesford	lathe	Bartholomew
AYLESFORD	a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a lathe	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Aylesford.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Horsted	place	Bartholomew
HORSTED	a place	Imperial
Kits Cotty House	cromlech	Bartholomew
KITS-COTTY-HOUSE	a large cromlech	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Aylesford within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Kent	9
John Byng	A Tour into Kent, 1790	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone	3

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
New Hythe	0	2
Allington	3	2
Ditton	0	2
Burham	0	2
Larkfield	0	2
East Malling	0	3
Boxley	1	2
Pennenden Heath	0	2
Barming	0	3
Maidstone	42	3
Wouldham	0	2
Tovil	0	2
Snodland	0	2
Paddlesworth	0	2
Birling	2	2
West Malling	2	5
Teston	1	3
Halling	1	2
East Farleigh	0	3
Lidsing	0	3