Yalding
Yalding | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Maidstone | |
Postcode district | ME18 | |
Dialling code | 01622 | |
Police | Kent | |
Fire | Kent | |
Ambulance | South East Coast | |
Maidstone and the Weald | ||
Yalding is a village and
Yalding Baptist Church is a Baptist church located on Vicarage Road.[7]
Rivers
Twyford Bridge crosses the River Medway. It is just downstream of the automatic sluice where the river drops from +11.2m to +7.41m above mean sea level, the navigation bears left through the Hampstead Rd Canal, and the Hampstead Lock, the main stream drops over the weir and sluice and is joined here by the River Teise (Lesser Teise) and both pass under Twyford Bridge. The river then flows in a loop towards the village where it is joined by the River Beult which has passed under Town Bridge. However the main stream of the River Teise flowed into the Beult near Benover, 3 km upstream of Town Bridge. Twyford Bridge is not navigable. Twyford bridge is 16 km from Allington, where the Medway becomes tidal.[8] The medieval Town Bridge is built of ragstone in the 15th century, it has seven arches and spans the Beult and the marshy ground each side.[6] It is reputed to be the longest existing medieval bridge in Kent being 150m in length.[3]
Floods
Parts of Yalding that have flooded before are, e.g.:
Transport
Yalding village and environs are primarily served by Nu-Venture buses 23 and 26.
Education
The village primary school is St Peter's and St Paul's Church of England Primary School. At secondary level, the school is in the Mascalls Academy Comprehensive catchment area. However, the village is home to many children who attend grammar schools in the neighbouring town of Maidstone.
Leisure
The Greensand Way long-distance footpath crosses the Medway at Twyford Bridge, and follows up the High Street, passes through Blunden Lane, and leaves the village by an ancient byway by Bustom Farm Cottages. The Medway Valley Walk follows the river from Tonbridge to the sluice on the east bank, then the Hampstead Lane Canal, and the river to Maidstone on the west bank.
Yalding Organic Garden has a display of fourteen individual gardens, demonstrating gardening through the last 800 years. The plants have been carefully chosen to make sure that they are accurate to their historical period.
Yalding has a popular annual contemporary music festival called 'The Vicar's Picnic', set on the edge of the village. Taking place every July it attracts up to 4000 visitors who camp in adjoining fields. Notable acts that have recently performed include The Fun Lovin' Criminals, Starsailor, Reef, Norman Jay MBE, Seb Fontaine, Bruce Foxton, Nightmares on Wax, 90's Indie Britpop band Cast, Canterbury folk-hiphop act, 'Coco & the Butterfields' and The Bluetones lead vocalist Mark Morriss. The festival is taking a break in 2019, returning in 2020.
The Yalding and District Beekeepers Association was formed in January 2011, by a group of local beekeepers, and meets monthly in the Chequers Inn, Laddingford.
There is a football club, formed in 2011 – Yalding and Laddingford FC based at the Kintons ground and the Jubilee field Laddingford with teams in the Maidstone and Mid Kent Sunday League. The teams are in Div 1 and 3. In 2012 club formed a side to play in the Tonbridge Saturday league . A new junior section of under 10's and under 13's was formed in 2013. In April 2014 the Saturday side won the club's first major silverware by winning the chairman's cup at Longmead Stadium and the following week the Sunday reserve side became league winners. Following this season the club was accepted into the Kent County League in division 3 East. The club has a junior section with 7 teams playing between the ages of 6 and 18. At present the club have 1 sides at u7 1 at u8, one each at u10, 2 at u11, 1 at u13 and 1 at u14 a junior futsal side and an u18 side.
Notable people
- Edmund Blunden, (1896-1974), Great War poet, lived in Yalding during the first decade of the twentieth century and the village inspired more than fifty of his poems.[13]
- Barry Evans, (1943–1997), actor best known for the sitcoms Doctor In The House and Mind Your Language, lived in Yalding for a short time.
- David Sadler, (b. 1946), football player, was born in Yalding.
References
- ^ a b "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: Maidstone". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- ^ a b c "Yalding Village History". Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ "Edith Nesbit". Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ "Yalding History: ICI Factory". Retrieved 5 December 2014.
- ^ ISBN 1-873010-23-0
- ^ "Home". yaldingbaptistchurch.my-free.website. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
- ^ The Medway navigation, Leaflet,March 1991, NRA-National Rivers Authority
- ^ "On the floods frontline". BBC. 8 November 2000. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ "Rain threatens more flood misery". BBC. 10 February 2001. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ "Independent 10th Feb 2001". Retrieved 20 May 2023.
- ^ "David Cameron Heckled on visit to flood-hit Yalding". Guardian. 28 December 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ Bergonzi, Bernard, "Blunden, Edmund Charles (1896–1974)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 28 Nov 2008