Teston
Teston, overlooks the Medway valley, south west of Maidstone on the north side on the A.26. The river is spanned by a stout ragstone bridge, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and three of the six arches are medieval. Beside the bridge is the popular lock and picnic site.
Teston is also famed for the cricket balls which have been made continuously in the village since the mid-19th Century and are still exported for test matches worldwide.
In the early 1780s Rev. James Ramsay, Rector of Teston worked with Wilberforce and Pitt on preliminary work to the Abolition of Slavery Bill. Sir Charles Middleton, Lord Barham, farmed in Teston for some time, residing at Barham Court. He held various Navy commands before becoming Comptroller in 1778 and First Lord in 1805. His reforms of the service held the country in good stead during the Napoleonic Wars and several battleships have borne his name.
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