Maidstone has bee an important regional centre for centuries and is also home to the Museum of Kent Life. A few miles out of the town centre is Leeds Castle, a fairy tale building built on an island and surrounded by 500-acres of gardens and parklands. Rochester is another historic Kent town, which boasts a cathedral and a castle among its places of interest, and at Chatham there is a museum covering the history of the royal docks, which were based in the town from Elizabethan times up until the 1980s.
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Suburbs and towns covered by this travel guide to Maidstone & Medway towns (Kent) include Aylesford, Chatam Maritime, Chatham, East Malling, Gilligham, Gillingham, Hollingbourne, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, Lenham, Maidstone, Minster on sea, Queenborough, Rochester, Sheerness, Sittingbourne, Snodland, West Malling, and more.
