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Yalding is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Maidstone in Kent, England. The village is situated south west of Maidstone at a point where the Rivers Teise and Beult join the River Medway. At the 2001 census, the parish, which includes the villages of Benover and Laddingford, had a population of 2,236. There are three bridges in the village; the Twyford Bridge (meaning ''twin ford'', where there was originally a double crossing of the two rivers) is one of the finest medieval bridges in the south-east of England. Yalding was one of the principal shipment points on the River Medway for cannon, from villages of the Wealden iron industry. One iron master was John Browne from Horsmonden. The wharf was later used for transporting fruit from the many orchards in the area. ==History== The Saxon village was called Twyford and was close to the bridge. But the name was recorded in the Domesday Book as the ''Saxon manor of Hallinges owned by Aldret'', though it was known as ''Ge-aeldinge'' (the old village). By 1642 this had mutated to Yaldinge.〔(Village Net )〕 The medieval records from Yalding are so complete that it was used in a History Case Study for Secondary Schools, called the The Yalding Project. During the English Civil War in 1643, a battle took place at Town Bridge between the Roundheads and Cavaliers. The Cavaliers had advanced from Aylesford towards Tonbridge, but the Parliamentarian soldiers had marched to block their movements, bombarded them and forced their surrender, with the result that 300 were captured and 300 escaped.〔 Yalding was a favourite of Edith Nesbit, author of ''The Railway Children'', who wrote in the 1920s: "The Medway just above the Anchor (at Yalding, Kent) is a river of dreams...If you go to Yalding you may stay at the George and be comfortable in a little village that owns a haunted churchyard, a fine church, and one of the most beautiful bridges in Europe."〔(Edith Nesbit )〕 The village was home to a chemicals manufacturing works from 1912 to 2003. In the early years it manufactured soap, then progressed to crop protection products. It was run by Syngenta at the time of closure.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://yaldinghistory.webplus.net/page226.html )〕 Garden Organic, previously known as the Henry Doubleday Research Association, the UK's leading organic growing charity, created a demonstration garden near the village. This was closed in 2007 but was leased and reopened by the business Maro Foods, in 2008. The gardens are now known as the Yalding Gardens. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yalding」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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