Larkfield and Aylesford

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Larkfield and Aylesford Hundred, shown within the Lathe of Aylesford and Kent

Larkfield and Aylesford or Larkfield is a hundred of Kent that forms part of the Lathe of Aylesford. It is bounded by Wrotham to the west; by Toltingtrough and Shamwell Hundred to the north; by Chatham and Gillingham (including the city of Rochester) to the north-east; by Maidstone to the east; and by Twyford and Littlefield to the south. It had a population of 62,875 in 2011. The 1831 census included Aylesford under Larkfield hundred, whereas the Ordnance Survey map of 1865 marked Aylesford as a hundred of itself separately from Larkfield.

It comprises the ancient parishes of:

*: Mostly in the city of Rochester (locally in Chatham and Gillingham hundred).

Hundreds of Kent

Lathe of Saint Augustine: Bewsborough • Bleangate • Bridge and Petham • Cornilo • Downhamford • Eastry • Kinghamford • Preston • Ringslow • Westgate • Whitstable • Wingham • Lathe of Shepway: Aloesbridge • Bircholt Barony • Bircholt Franchise • Folkestone • Ham • Heane • Hythe • Longport • Loningborough • Newchurch • Oxney • St Martin's Longport • Stowting • Street • Worth • Lathe of Scray: Barkley • Blackborne • Boughton • Calehill • Chart and Longbridge • Cranbrook • Faversham • Felborough • Great Barnfield • Marden • Milton • Rolvenden • Selbrittenden • Sheppey • Tenterden • Teynham • Wye • Lathe of Aylesford: Brenchley and Horsmonden • Chatham and Gillingham • Eyhorne • Hoo • Larkfield and Aylesford • Littlefield • Maidstone • Shamwell • Toltingtrough • Tunbridge Lowey • Twyford • Washlingstone • West Barnfield • Wrotham • Lathe of Sutton at Hone: Axtane • Dartford and Wilmington • Blackheath • Bromley and Beckenham • Codsheath • Little and Lessnes • Ruxley • Somerden • Westerham and Edenbridge