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MALLING, EAST

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 492 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MALLING, See also:EAST and See also:WEST, two populous villages in the See also:Medway See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Kent, See also:England, respectively 5 and 6 m. W. by N. of See also:Maidstone, with a station on the See also:South-Eastern and See also:Chatham railway. Pop. (1901), East Mailing, 2391; West Mailing, 2312. They are situated in a See also:rich agricultural See also:district on the western slope of the valley of the Medway, and East Mailing has large See also:paper See also:mills. At West Mailing are remains of Mailing See also:Abbey, a See also:Benedictine nunnery founded in logo by Gundulf, See also:bishop of See also:Rochester. The remains, which are partly incorporated in a See also:modern See also:building, include the See also:Norman west front of the See also:church, the See also:Early See also:English cloisters, the See also:chapter-See also:house, See also:gate-house (the See also:chapel of which is restored to use), and other portions. About Addington near West Mailing are considerable prehistoric remains, including mounds, single stones, See also:stone circles and pits in the See also:chalk hills; while at Leybourne are the gateway and other fragments of the See also:castle held by the Leybourne See also:family from the 12th to the 14th See also:century.

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