AYLESFORD, a town of Kent, England, 31m. N.W. of Maidstone on the Southern railway. Population (1921) 3,113. Several remains of antiquity exist in the neighbourhood, among them a dolmen called Kit's Coty House, about a mile north-east from the village.
The larger group of monuments close by is called the Countless Stones. To the west of Aylesford are the remains of a Carmelite friary founded in 1240, said to have been the first house of Carmelites established in England.