|  Maidstone is one of Meblourne's western Suburbs
Maidstone is a suburb located 8km west of Melbourne, Victoria. Its Local Government Area is the City of Maribyrnong. In 2006 at the Census, Maidstone had a population of 6050.
Maidstone is a suburb of the City of Maribyrnong, located 8km from the Melbourne CBD, bordered by West Footscray to the South on Suffolk Street, Braybrook to the west on Ashley St, Footscray to the east along Summerhill and Rosamond Roads and Maribyrnong to the north and north-east along Williamson Road and Rosamond Road.
Maidstone was established in 1858. It was given the name of Maidstone in Kent as it is close to Footscray which was named after Foots Cray, another town formerly in Kent.
Maidstone Post Office opened on 1 October 1858 and closed in 1986.
Maidstone was predominantly made up of brick Art Deco, period weatherboard and Californian Bungalow houses constructed between the 1920s and 1940s.Then concrete houses built in the late 1940s to house the families of returned servicemen from World War II were built and are also found. From the early 1990s many old factory sites in Maidstone have been turned into new housing estates, comprising of hundreds of houses and townhouses.
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