Aylesford Priory, Maidstone

Name: Aylesford Priory
Address: Maidstone, United Kingdom

#27 among attractions in Maidstone

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Aylesford Priory, or "The Friars" was founded in 1242 when members of the Carmelite order arrived in England from Mount Carmel in the Holy Land. Richard de Grey, a crusader, sponsored them, and conveyed to the order a parcel of land located on his manor in Aylesford in Kent. ()

Coordinates: 51°18'10"N, 0°28'17"E

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Aylesford (Aylesford Village)Maidstone United Kingdom

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Aylesford Priory – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Leybourne Lakes Country Park, Medway Megaliths, Ditton Quarry, Coffin Stone.

1.5 miNW
Park
Leybourne Lakes Country Park
39 min walk • Leybourne Lakes Country Park is near Snodland, in Kent, England. The park, which opened in 2004, was created from disused gravel pits that have been flooded and landscaped to make fishing and wildlife lakes.
1.6 miNE
Museum
Medway Megaliths, Maidstone
40 min walk • The Medway Megaliths, sometimes termed the Kentish Megaliths, are a group of Early Neolithic chambered long barrows and other megalithic monuments located in the lower valley of the River Medway in Kent, South-East England.
1 miSW
Park
Ditton Quarry, Maidstone
26 min walk • Ditton Quarry is a 5.6-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Ditton, on the north-western outskirts of Maidstone in Kent. It is owned and managed by Ditton Parish Council. This former quarry has grassland and scrub, with diverse fauna including butterflies, foxes, rabbits, frogs, toads and newts. The meadow is rich in wild flowers.
1.5 miNE
Museum, Archaeological site
Coffin Stone
38 min walk • The Coffin Stone, also known as the Coffin and the Table Stone, is a large sarsen stone at the foot of Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Now lying horizontally, the stone probably once stood upright nearby.