Definitive Guide to Maidstone Coming Soon...

23rd May 2010

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New Mind has been tasked to create a new online tourism guide for Maidstone in Kent.

The new website will promote Maidstone's eclectic mix of history, culture, leisure and entertainment.  It's thriving town centre, abundance of green spaces and gardens, wealth of attractions and colourful history will all feature within a cost-effective template design.  

The site will be powered by the Destination Management System (DMS) which New Mind implemented as part of the development of www.visitheartofkent.com and online bookings will be directed to that site.  The launch is scheduled for Summer 2010.

Facts about Maidstone:-

• Maidstone has a colourful history shaped by battles, revolts, witches, industrialists and Victorian benefactors

• Situated between Dover and London, the town was a main route for pilgrimages and a bustling centre for local and national trade

• Leeds Castle was described by Lord Conway as 'the loviest castle in the world' and has an important role in British history

• The splendid All Saints Church boasts a memorial to local man Laurence Washington showing the family arms which inspired the “Stars and Stripes”

• Gabriel’s Hill, site of the climax of the Battle of Maidstone fought on 1 June 1648 is home to The Golden Boot, established in 1790 and is the UK’s oldest family run shoe shop which still bears the wonderful trade sign of a Wellington boot

• Lying at the heart of the rolling Kent countryside, The North Downs Way is an established National Trail passing through the Kent Downs Area of Natural Beauty near Maidstone