There are still many timber-framed houses and buildings, including a Medieval Court Hall (a seat of Justice and Administration) that dates back to 1450.

The Swale connects in the west with the lower reaches of the River Medway and was the main transport route to the cities and towns of Rochester, Chatham and Maidstone.

Around a mile to the south of Milton is the old Roman road of Watling Street, linking London to Canterbury and Dover.

The area is prone to flooding, and after the sack of 1052 the town centre was moved atop the next hillock south, where it remains to this day.

An excavation at Castle Rough to the north of Milton Regis in 1972 uncovered around a hundred Mesolithic flint artifacts.

[3] Slightly further north, beyond the modern Kemsley village, there used to be a Neolithic site from which worked stone implements have been retrieved.

[7] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 893 records: "Then ... Haesten came with eighty ships into the mouth of the Thames, and made himself a fort at Milton Royal".

[8] This naval force was only part of a larger fleet of 250 ships, the remaining group under the command of Jarl Harald (Bloodhair) landing at Appledore in the Romney Marsh in the south of Kent.

[6] It has long been supposed that this fort was at Castle Rough, but modern archaeological research has thrown doubt on the identity.

[5] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle also records Godwin, Earl of Wessex, a powerful nobleman at the time, burning the town to the ground in 1052.

[9] Local folklore has assigned the origins of Castle Rough to the Iron Age, Romans, Hengist and Horsa, Haestan and to a medieval fortified manor house.

[5] In 1798, the town was described as "... nor is it in any degree pleasant, the narrow streets, or rather lanes in it, being badly paved, and for the most part inhabited by seafaring persons, fishermen, and oyster-dredgers".

[15] The water flow from the creek provided a power source for the paper mills at Milton Regis and Kemsley to operate and was an effective, safe and cheap method of transporting the materials in and the goods out.

The long commercial and industrial history of Milton Creek generated a need for a large fleet of trading barges at that time, now passed.

[16] Starting in 2011, a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) funded community oral history project took place in Sittingbourne and Milton Regis recording the memories of people of the former industries along Milton Creek, mainly barge-building, brick and cement making, and the paper mills.