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Aylesford |
 | | AYLESFORD, a village in Kent, on the right bank of the Medway, a little to the left of the road from London to Maidstone, thirty-two miles and a half from the former, and about three miles and a half from the latter. |
 | | Queen Elizabeth granted them to the Sedley family, and they are now in the possession of the family of Finch, Earls of Aylesford, In the mansion of this family, and in the domestic offices, many portions of the friary buildings are still visible. |
 | | At the distance of two fields southward from Kits Coty House, in the bottom nearer to Aylesford, is a heap of the like kind of stones, some of which are partly upright, and others lying in a circle round them, in all to the number of nine or ten. |
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