comfortable in a little village that owns a haunted churchyard, a fine church, and one of the most beautiful bridges in Europe." The village was home to a chemicals manufacturing works from 1912 to 2003. In the early years it manufactured soap, then progressed to crop protection products under Imperial Chemical Industries' Agrochemicals Division. It was run by Syngenta at the time of closure. Garden Organic, previously known as the Henry Doubleday Research Association, the UK's leading organic growing charity, created a demonstration garden near the village. This was closed in 2007 but was leased and reopened by the business Maro Foods, in 2008. The gardens are now known as the Yalding Gardens. Buildings St Peter's and St Paul's church is a Grade I listed building. It is built from ragstone, and is judged to be from the 13th century. The tower turret has a weather vane dated 1734. Yalding Baptist Church is a Baptist church located on Vicarage Road. Rivers Twyford Bridge crosses the River Medway. It is just downstream of the automatic sluice where the river drops from +11.2m to +7.41m above mean sea level, the navigation bears left through the Hampstead Rd Canal, and the Hampstead Lock, the main stream drops over the weir and sluice and is joined here by the River Teise (Lesser Teise) and both pass under Twyford Bridge. The river then flows in a loop towards the village where it is joined by the River Beult which has passed under Town Bridge. However the main stream of the River Teise flowed into the Beult near Benover, 3 km upstream of Town Bridge. Twyford Bridge is not navigable. Twyford bridge is 16 km from Allington, where the Medway becomes tidal. The medieval Town Bridge is built of ragstone in the 15th century, it has seven arches and spans the Beult and the marshy ground each side. It is reputed to be the longest existing medieval bridge in Kent being 150m in length. Floods Parts of Yalding that have flooded before are, e.g.: Christmas Day 1927 eight times in the winter of 2000–1. in December 2013 Transport Yalding village and environs are primarily served by Nu-Venture buses 23 and 26. Yalding railway station lies on the Medway Valley Line which links Strood, Maidstone West, Yalding, Paddock Wood and Tonbridge. Education The village primary school is St Peter's and St Paul's Church of England Primary School.