Tovil

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Tovil
The Royal Paper Mill on Tovil Hill
Tovil shown within Kent
- London	33 miles (53 km) NW
District	Maidstone
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MAIDSTONE
Postcode district	ME15,
Dialling code	01622
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
European Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Maidstone and the Weald
List of places: UK • England • Kent

Coordinates: 51°15′51″N 0°30′35″E / 51.2642, 0.5096

Tovil is now a suburb of the town of Maidstone, the county town of Kent in the South East of England.

It is a mixture of residential and industrial zoning, with an increase in commercial usage towards the centre of Maidstone, and more arable use on the outskirts.

Tovil has a history of paper mills on the Loose Stream near the River Medway, which ceased operation in the 1980s. These included Great Ivy Mill, Hayle Mill, Upper Tovil Mill, Lower Tovil Mill and Bridge Mill. These and other mills located along the Loose Stream which flows through Tovil were formerly used for fulling, corn and in one case gunpowder. Alabaster Passmore had an important printing works in Tovil and there were other small industries and a railway siding. The industry has nearly all been replaced by suburban housing and cheap retail sheds and the built up area has lost the character it had a few decades ago.

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