AYLESHAM, a new town in the Kent coalfield, north of Dover, England. The first section, planned on original lines, was completed in 1928, when the population was about 2,000. The centre of the town, reserved as a shopping square, lies at the head of a small valley whence wide roads follow the contours of the valley. Public buildings in process of erection in 1928 in cluded churches, a hotel, and a temporary school and railway sta tion.