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Maidstone

[ meyd-stohn, -stuhn ]

noun

  1. a city in Kent, in SE England.


Maidstone

/ -ˌstəʊn; ˈmeɪdstən /

noun

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


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He thought the seven miles between Rochester and Maidstone the most charming walk in all England.

This extraordinary malefactor suffered at Maidstone on the 6th of April, 1758.

When the first railway through Kent was projected, the line was laid out so as to pass by Maidstone, the county town.

At about this time we made another move to a field near Maidstone, a small town southeast of London.

Our living conditions at Maidstone were different: in a tent with a dirt floor in the middle of an apple orchard.

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