EAST

See also:

• EAST MALLING

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