Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Yalding

Yalding, par. and vil. with ry. sta., Kent, at the confluence of the Beult and the Medway, 5½ miles SW. of Maidstone, 5843 ac., pop. 2514; P.O., T.O.; was once a market town, and was frequently desolated by the plague; hops and fruit are largely grown, and there is navigation by barges on the Medway.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yalding CP/AP       Kent AncC
Place: Yalding

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