Aylesford railway station, opened on 18 June 1856, is on the Medway Valley Line connecting Strood with Maidstone ( West ) and Paddock Wood.

In 1864, a proposed railway from Paddock Wood via Cranbrook and Tenterden to Hythe ( the Weald of Kent Railway ) also failed to obtain its Act of Parliament.

In 1877, the Cranbrook and Paddock Wood Railway was incorporated, and powers obtained to build the northern section of the Weald of Kent Railway to transport cured crayfish from Tenterden to a better mainline connection.

In 1898, the proposal was abandoned in favour of extending the Cranbrook and Paddock Wood railway to Tenterden and Appledore.

Paddock Wood is a small town and civil parish in the Borough of Tunbridge Wells and county of Kent in England, about southwest of Maidstone.

Paddock Wood formed part of the ancient parish of Brenchley.

There are several theories for the origin of the name " Paddock Wood "; it may have been derived from the nearby Manor of Parrock, or from the nearby woodland and paddocks.

The area around Paddock Wood has always had a history of hop farming, and in the growth of the town is partly due to the seasonal influx of hop pickers, and at the height of the season up to 8, 000 people would arrive to work on the farms.

In August 1896, the first speeding offence in the United Kingdom was committed in Paddock Wood when Walter Arnold of East Peckham was chased by a police constable on a bicycle and apprehended for driving at in his Benz motor-car.

On 19 May 1929, Farman F. 63bis Goliath F-GEAI of Air Union, whilst on a flight from Croydon to Paris, crashed at Keylands Sidings near Paddock Wood railway station, it stopped yards from the signal box and was destroyed by fire, the pilot and mechanic escaped with minor injuries.

On 9 December 1944 near Faenza, Italy, a 22-year-old Captain in the British Army, John Brunt, whose parents came from Paddock Wood, held off a German counter-attack and remained behind while giving covering fire that enabled his men to safely withdraw, and was awarded the Victoria Cross.

After the war the Kent Arms public house in Paddock Wood was renamed the John Brunt VC in his honour.

The town of Paddockwood in Canada was named by Fred Pitts who emigrated there from Paddock Wood.

Paddock Wood has three tiers of local government: parish or town, district or borough and county.

Paddock Wood is a civil parish, formed in 1955 out of Brenchley.

The parish council has used its powers under the Local Government Act 1972 to designate the parish as a " town " and thus the parish council is known as Paddock Wood Town Council.

Since 1974 Paddock Wood has formed part of the Borough of Tunbridge Wells.

The town elects 4 borough councillors, with 2 each for the Paddock Wood East and Paddock Wood West wards.

Paddock Wood forms part of the electoral district of Tunbridge Wells Rural.

The commercial areas of Paddock Wood are separated by the railway line.

To the west is the larger Transfesa Road and Paddock Wood Distribution Centre.

The petition requesting the establishment of the school, titled " The Founders ' Petition of 1785 ," was addressed to Governor Thomas Carleton and was signed by seven Loyalist men: William Paine, William Wanton, George Sproule, Zephaniah Kingsley, John Coffin, Ward Chipman, and Adino Paddock.

He advocates a system of " triage ," such as that suggested by William and Paul Paddock in Famine 1975 !.

He was also knocked out in the first round by Cliff Field ( neither knockout loss is mentioned in his autobiography ) and beaten on points by Kevin Paddock, although McLean always maintained that he had never lost a fight " on the cobbles ," or outside the ring.

* 19 May — Harry Broome finally defends the Championship of England against Tom Paddock at Manningtree.

"* In May 2008, joined NYRA's Paddock Show and has been doing it since.

He and his brother, Norman Pope, acquired land near Farrell's Paddock, Manly, with an eighteen-hole course being established in May 1908.

Cameraman Charles Paddock said that, just before beginning filming on The Delinquents, Altman advised him to watch the film The Asphalt Jungle and imitate that style of lighting.

Paddock style black leather boots, well worn.

On 7 August 1858, Wills was one of the umpires at a match between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar School, also in the Richmond Paddock.

Its specialized libraries include the Biomedical Libraries, Evans Map Room, Feldberg Business & Engineering Library, Jones Media Center, Kresge Physical Sciences Library, Paddock Music Library, Rauner Special Collections Library, and Sherman Art Library.

Having already moved from its ground at Kent Street, Ascot Vale (" McCracken's Paddock ") to Flemington Hill, the club was again forced to move in 1881 ; and, because the City of Essendon mayor of the day, James Taylor, considered the Essendon Cricket Ground " to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket ", Essendon moved to East Melbourne.

* Edge, David ; John Miles Paddock ( 1988 ) Arms & Armor of the Medieval Knight.

A game at the Yarra Park | Richmond Paddock in the 1860s.

Governor La Trobe offered the MCC a choice of three sites ; an area adjacent to the existing ground, a site at the junction of Flinders and Spring Streets or a ten-acre ( about 4 hectares ) section of the Government Paddock at Richmond next to Richmond Park.

At the same time the Richmond Cricket Club was given occupancy rights to six acres ( 2. 4 hectares ) for another cricket ground on the eastern side of the Government Paddock.

* 1900 – Charley Paddock, American athlete ( d. 1943 )

He exchanged ideas with sprinter Charley Paddock and even trained with his rival Otto Peltzer.

* July 21 – Charlie Paddock, American athlete ( b. 1900 )

** Charlie Paddock, American athlete ( d. 1943 )

Where the fourth side would have been is now a large paddock ( known simply as " The Paddock "), with many trees.

B. Paddock declared war on the district but with no long-term results.

Born in nearby Paddock Grove, son of a butcher, he was also MP for Boston, from 1856, until his death in 1860, in a shipping accident on Lake Michigan.

Starfish Youth Music is based at Priory School and the young bands who take part regularly perform in local venues such as the Paddock and the All Saints ' Centre.

* The campus includes the Great Wilkins and Paddock Field halls of residence.

Formed in 1892, the club traditionally represented the inner-Melbourne suburb of Collingwood, and was based at Victoria Park in Abbotsford ; the club is now based in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, playing its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and with its training and administrative base in Gosch's Paddock and the Westpac Centre.

Joe and Jim Paddock came with their pile driving equipment.

With the sawmill that had arrived on the Tongass, the Paddock brothers built the wharf, fish house and started the boardwalk.

Rosemere Farm was sold long ago, and Ocala's Paddock Mall and Central Florida College were built on the site.

John D. Paddock and his bride were the first residents of Malvern.