The Medway Valley. A Kent landscape

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Deals with Lower Medway Valley in Kent, largely between Maidstone and Rochester, from mid 18th to late 19th century, and its transformation from an agrarian economy to one having a substantial industrial component - paper production, cement production, brickmaking, brewing, ship and barge building, seed crushing and engineering. Chapters include: 'Land and farming'; 'Industry and manufacturing' - 'the beginnings of industrialisation / industry in the mid 19th century' / 'the later 19th century' / 'catalysts for industrial development' / 'employment' / 'the landscape transformed'; 'Landowners and industrialists'; 'House, home and community'; 'Church, chapel and people'; 'Aylesford, Eccles and Snodland'; 'Lower Medway Valley and the wider world'; 'Industrial decline and landscape change'