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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 75 NW 169
Type of record:Monument
Name:Forstal Paper Mill

Summary

Site of white paper mill.


Grid Reference:TQ 73880 58805
Map Sheet:TQ75NW
Parish:AYLESFORD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Site of a small, water powered, hand made, white paper mill which was operational from c1671 to c1840. No history of having a papermaking machine. Building has been demolished.
(1) Alfred Shorter, Papermills in the Maidstone District, 'The Papermaker and British Paper Journal', 1960.


Jim Preston Personal Communication (Verbal communication). SKE13236.

Jim Preston Personal Communication (Verbal communication). Ske13236.

Sources and further reading

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---Verbal communication: Jim Preston Personal Communication.