Yelsted is a hamlet in the Borough of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, England.

It was a manor in the parish of Stockbury, the manor-house was owned by 'John de Savage', (grandson of 'Ralph de Savage', who was with King Richard I at the siege of Acon, France).

Later, the house was passed to Sir William Jumper (commissioner of his Majesty's navy at Plymouth).

Pierce Dixon, master of the mathematicalfree school at Rochester.

[1] In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Yelsted like this: "YELSTED, a village in Stockbury parish, Kent; 7½ miles NE of Maidstone.