Aylesford
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Aylesford, NS (Nearby: Auburn, Berwick, Greenwood, Kingston, Waterville)

2704 HWY 1
Aylesford, Nova Scotia
B0P 1C0


Nova Scotia Tourism Region : Bay of Fundy & Annapolis Valley

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  • Aboriginal peoples called the place Kobetek, ‘a beaver's home.' The executive council of Nova Scotia issued a proclamation in 1786 that 'the part of the Township of Wilmot which lies in Kings County is to be called Aylesford.'
  • That was the name of the 4th Earl of Aylesford, Lord of the Bedchamber to King George III who took his title from the village of Aylesford in Kent.
  • Settlement began after Wilmot Township was laid out in 1764 and was boosted by Loyalist immigration. By 1802 there were 42 families in the township. A postal way station opened in 1836 and a post office by 1853.
  • With permission from 'Nova Scotia Place Names' David E. Scott 2015


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  • From the "Old Judge"

    " The great Aylesford sand-plain folks call it, in a glnral way, the Devil's Goose Pasture.

    It is thirteen miles long and seven miles wide ; it ain't jest drifting sand, but it's all but that, it's so barren. It's oneaven, or wavy, like the swell of the sea in a calm, and is covered with short, thin, dry, coarse grass, and dotted here and there with a half-starved birch and a stunted mis-shapen spruce.

    Two or three hollow places hold water all through the summer, and the whole plain is criss-crossed with cart or horse tracks in all directions. It is jest about as silent, and lonesome, and desolate a place as you would wish to see. Each side of this desert are some most royal farms—some of the best, perhaps, in the pro- vince—containing the rich lowlands under the mountain ; but the plain is given up to the geese, who are so wretched poor that the foxes won't eat them, they hurt their teeth so bad.

    All that country thereabouts, as I have heard tell when I was a boy, was oncest owned by the lord, the king, and the devil. The glebe-lands belonged to to the first, the ungranted wilderness-lands to the second, and the sand-plain fell to the share of the last, (and people do say ihe old gentleman was rather done in the divi- sion, but that is neither here nor there,) and so it is called to this day the Devil's Goose Pasture."


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