Kemsley

Kemsley
Kemsley  Kemsley shown within Kent
Population	6,100 (2005)[1]
District	Swale
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
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Kemsley is a suburb of Sittingbourne in Kent, England.

At the end of the 19th century, the site on which the village site was simply a row of cottages beside a brick works,^[2] located close to the remains of the medieval fortified manor house Castle Rough.^[3] But in 1924, with expansion impossible at the old Sittingbourne Paper Mills, owner Edward Lloyd built the new Kemsley Paper Mill, which served by a creek allowed the direct importation of raw materials to the site.

At the same time he built a garden village to house his employees, the core of which comprises the modern day Kemsley village. The narrow gauge industrial railway which served the factory is now the preserved Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway, a tourist attraction. Kemsley railway station is on the Sheerness Line.

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