Maidstone (mād`stən), city (1991 pop. 86,067), Kent, SE England, on the Medway River. It is a market city with agricultural, paper, printing, quarrying, brewing, and engineering industries. There is evidence of a Roman station. Chillington Manor (Elizabethan) contains the Maidstone Museum, the public library, and the headquarters of the Kent Archaeological Society. The grammar school dates from 1549. Noteworthy are the Church of All Saints, founded in the 14th cent.; the palace of the archbishops; and Penenden Heath, a recreation ground. Maidstone has technical, art, and adult-education schools. William Hazlitt Hazlitt, William, 1778–1830, English essayist. Abandoning the idea of entering the clergy, he took up painting and later journalism. He acted as parliamentary reporter and theatrical critic for the Morning Chronicle
..... Click the link for more information. was born in the city. Nearby Cobtree Manor is the "Dingley Dell" of Dickens's Pickwick Papers.

Maidstone

Town and borough (pop., 2001: 138,959), administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. It is situated on the River Medway southeast of London. Its name is derived from one given it in Domesday Book. A residence of the Norman archbishops of Canterbury until the Reformation, it grew as a market town. Still an agricultural centre, it is located in England's largest hops-growing area, and brewing is important to its economy. Among many sites of architectural interest is the medieval archbishop's palace.

Maidstone

a town in SE England, administrative centre of Kent, on the River Medway. Pop.: 89 684 (2001)

Maidstone

a city in Great Britain, on the Medway River. Maidstone is the administrative center of the county of Kent. Population, 70,900 (1971). Maidstone is the market center for the surrounding horticulture district. The city’s industries include food, paper, cement, and agricultural machinery.

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No references found	Catalogues were made out and sent to the various dealers in second-hand books at Tercanbury, Maidstone, and Ashford. Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context One said she lived in the South Foreland Light, and had singed her whiskers by doing so; another, that she was made fast to the great buoy outside the harbour, and could only be visited at half-tide; a third, that she was locked up in Maidstone jail for child-stealing; a fourth, that she was seen to mount a broom in the last high wind, and make direct for Calais. David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context Near Maidstone they came on a string of eleven motor-guns of peculiar construction halted by the roadside, with a number of businesslike engineers grouped about them watching through field-glasses some sort of entrenchment that was going on near the crest of the downs. The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context	Mai-Maevskii, Vladimir Mai-Maevskii, Vladimir Zenonovich Maia Maia Mamadzhan Kulieva Maia Stage Maiachnyi Maiak Maiakovskii Maiano Maiatskoe Gorodishche Maiboroda, Georgiiillarionovich Maichishan MAID Maidana, Antonio Maidanek Maidari Khural maiden Maiden Castle maiden over maiden tower Maiden's Tower Maidenhair Fern maidenhair tree maidenhead Maidens' Fair on Mount Gaina Maidstone Maidstone State Park Maidu Maiduguri Maidyarem Maidyoshahem Maidyozarem Maier, Hermann maieusiophobia Maievskii, Nikolai Maievskii, Nikolai Vladimirovich Maifest Maigret, Inspector Maiia Chiburdanidze Maiia Grigorevna Chiburdanidze Maiia Mikhailovna Plisetskaia Maiia Plisetskaia Maiia Shakhberdyeva Maiju Lassila Maikain Maikal Maikanova, Sabira Maikop Maikop Culture Maikop Kurgan Maikop Series	maidenish maidenlike maidenliness maidenly maidenly maidenly maidenly maidens maidens maidens maidens Maidens of the Kaleidoscope Maidens' Fair on Mount Gaina Maidenship maidhood Maidhyairya Maidhyoishema Maidhyoizaremaya maidism Maidmarian Maidpale MAIDS MAIDS MAIDS maids in waiting maids of honor Maids of Honour maidservant maidservant maidservants Maidstone Maidstone Area Archaeological Group Maidstone Borough-Wide Local Plan Maidstone Community Care Housing Maidstone Girls Grammar School Maidstone Mid Kent Motor Club Maidstone Model Flying Club Maidstone Road Baptist Church Maidstone State Park Maidstone, England Maidstone, England Maidstone, Kent Maidstone, Kent Maidu Maidu Maidu Cultural and Development Group Maiduan languages Maiduguri Maiduguri Maidus Maidus Maidyarem Maidyarem Maidyarem Maidyarem Maidyoshahem Maidyozarem MAIE MAIE MAIEA MAIED

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Catalogues were made out and sent to the various dealers in second-hand books at Tercanbury, Maidstone, and Ashford.

Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

One said she lived in the South Foreland Light, and had singed her whiskers by doing so; another, that she was made fast to the great buoy outside the harbour, and could only be visited at half-tide; a third, that she was locked up in Maidstone jail for child-stealing; a fourth, that she was seen to mount a broom in the last high wind, and make direct for Calais.

David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context

Near Maidstone they came on a string of eleven motor-guns of peculiar construction halted by the roadside, with a number of businesslike engineers grouped about them watching through field-glasses some sort of entrenchment that was going on near the crest of the downs.

The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context