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4 unusual facts about Maidstone


All Saints Church, Maidstone

Founded by Archbishop of Canterbury William Courtenay in 1395 as part of a new College of All Saints, the church replaced an earlier one on the site dedicated to St Mary.

Maidstone, Ontario

The Windsor Star wrote a story in summer 2006, projecting the community's population to soar to over 2000 within the next 10 years (at the time, it was around 580) due to the explosive growth in Tecumseh.

Richard H. Small

He taught for a number of years at that university, but returned to industry in 1986 as Head of Research at KEF Electronics Ltd. in Maidstone, England until 1993.

The Castle of Adventures

The series was filmed on location and at Saltwood Castle in Maidstone, Kent.


Baron Hothfield

On the Earl's death in 1849 he inherited the estates, which included Skipton Castle in Yorkshire and Hothfield Place, Maidstone, Kent, and became a British citizen the same year.

Battle of Maidstone

The Kentish Royalists assembled outside Maidstone at Penenden Heath with over 10,000 men raised for the Earl of Norwich.

Borough of Tunbridge Wells

The SER line to Hastings passes through Tunbridge Wells; here there was once a further branch connection south-eastwards to Groombridge, and at Paddock Wood is the southern terminus of the Medway Valley Line to Maidstone.

Bossom

Bossom baronets, of Maidstone in the County of Kent, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Charles Grimes

He was appointed paymaster at the recruiting depot, Maidstone, in September 1833 and was transferred to Chatham, Kent in 1836.

Cimoliopterus

In 1851, James Scott Bowerbank named and described some remains found in a chalk pit at Burham near Maidstone in Kent, as a new species of Pterodactylus: Pterodactylus cuvieri.

Danielle Buet

Buet attended St. Simon Stock Catholic School in Maidstone, followed by Loughborough University on the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme.

Dirty Rotten Cheater

The UK version was taped at the Maidstone Studios in Kent, but edited at BBC Television Centre.

Dunn Street, Maidstone

Dunn Street is a hamlet near the village of Bredhurst and the M2 motorway, in the Maidstone District, in the English county of Kent.

Edward Hales

Sir Edward Hales, 2nd Baronet (1626–1684), Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone and Queenborough

Fergus and Judith Wilson

As of 2013, they own nearly 1,000 two- and three-bedroom properties around Ashford and Maidstone in Kent.

Francis Evans

Sir Francis Evans, 1st Baronet (1840–1907), British MP for Southampton 1888–1895, 1896–1900 and Maidstone 1901–1906

GKD sports cars

GKD Sports Cars is a small volume car manufacturer based in Boughton Monchelsea, near Maidstone, Kent, with workshops at Lenham.

Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal

He married Jane Maidstone née Pearson on the 13th Aug 1849 in Pietermaritzburg and accompanied Theophilus Shepstone as adviser to the Transvaal in 1877.

HM Prison Maidstone

Also involved in the design of Maidstone Prison was Kent architect John Whichcord Snr, who was Surveyor to the County of Kent from the 1820s.

HMS Leeds Castle

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Leeds Castle after Leeds Castle, near Maidstone in Kent.

Ian McGregor

He has also presented drive time for Manx Radio on the Isle of Man and worked as a presenter on the trial broadcasts of Chelmer Radio and Maidstone’s CTR (now KMfm).

Jake Hendriks

2008 - Jack and the Beanstalk - "Hazlitt Theatre" Maidstone - 29 November 2008 - 4 January 2009.

James Vashon

He was quickly promoted to first-lieutenant when Lieutenant Peter Rainier (for whom Mount Rainier was named) was promoted and transferred off the Maidstone.

John Bligh

John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley (1719–1781), his son, Irish MP for Athboy 1739–1747, British MP for Maidstone

John Hazlitt

After living in Maidstone in Kent, and in Bandon in County Cork, the family moved to America in 1783, living first in Philadelphia and then in Boston.

John Manningham

He was also befriended by a distant relative, Richard Manningham, who, born at St Albans in 1539, made a fortune in London as a mercer, and in his old age retired to Bradbourne, near Maidstone.

John Ryden

After his football career had ended, Ryden was employed by a finance and insurance broker in the companies offices at Maidstone and later in Richmond.

Jon Harley

Harley grew up in the Maidstone suburb of Allington, attending Oakwood Park Grammar School and playing for the local junior team Castle Colts.

Kacey Ainsworth

Before her appearances on television shows, she made her first ever appearance in 1998 on a commercial for Rover Mini cars, in which as a contestant named "Helen from Maidstone" she had to guess by looking at the sizes of different men's genitalia what car they own.

Lonchodraco

In 1846, James Scott Bowerbank named and described some remains found in a chalk pit at Burham near Maidstone in Kent, as a new species of Pterodactylus: Pterodactylus giganteus.

Maidstone Corporation Transport

In the film The Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller's (Matthew McConaughey) Los Angeles apartment is decorated with route signs from Maidstone Corporation Transport buses.

Mark Gall

Maidstone manager John Still was nevertheless surprised that no League club had been prepared to risk such a small sum on a player of potential, albeit one playing at an "fairly low" level.

Nicky Hamlyn

He has exhibited films with a fellow Professor, the film director and writer Andrew Kotting in 2008 at The George Rodger Gallery in Maidstone, Kent.

Recreational walks in Kent

Leybourne Lakes Country Park with its own roundabout exit off J4 of the M20, between Rochester and Maidstone and paths linking Snodland and New Hythe has a variety of trails.

Stalisfield Green

The pub serves only Kentish beers from its traditional hand pumps; regularly featuring ales from Hop Daemon (Newnham), Gadds (Ramsgate) and Goachers (Maidstone).

Wainscott, New York

The hamlet was named after Wainscott, Kent, a village north of Maidstone, England, an area immortalized in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and from which most of the early settlers of East Hampton came.


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