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Week Street is the main shopping street of Kent's county town of Maidstone, and one of the main commercial streets of the English county of Kent.

Geography
Week Street runs for about half a kilometer through the town center of Maidstone, starting at the junction of Maidstone High Steet, King Street and Gabriel's Hill, and finishing at Sandling Road, between Maidstone East railway station and County Hall. At its highest point, near the junction with Union Street, Week Street reaches a level of around 19 metres above sea level.

History
Week Street is traditionally derived from the Latin word vicus, meaning a neighbourhood or settlement. The name appears to have come, indirectly, from the medieval manor of Wyke which was located near the junction of Week Street and Union Street.

Week Street is believed to follow the same route as a Roman road between the Roman town of Durobrivae (Rochester) and the Weald, which was a regional centre of the iron industry between the iron age and the nineteenth century. A building, believed to be of Romano-British origin, was uncovered at the junction of Week Street and King Street in 1967.

During the Battle of Maidstone in 1648 during the Second English Civil War, Week Street became one of the main battlegrounds. The royalist forces defending the town of Maidstone retreated gradually from Gabriel's Hill back along Week Street before being finally defeated in St Faith's Churchyard just off the northwestern end of the street.

Week street was fully developed along its whole length by the 1820s.

Maidstone town centre gained its first direct rail link to London in 1874, following the opening of Maidstone East station at the northern end of Week Street.

Retail
Maidstone is ranked in the top five shopping centres in the south east of England for shopping yields and, with more than one million square feet of retail floor space, in the top 50 in the UK. Week Street took over from Maidstone High Street as the town's main shopping street in the 1930s following the opening of major chains such as Marks & Spencer, Burton and Woolworths.

A new outdoor shopping centre just off Week Street, on Fremlin Walk was completed in 2011, bringing an additional 350,000 square feet of retail space to the area. Fremlin Walk was constructed on the site of the former Fremlin's Brewery which closed to brewing in 1972.

In 2018-19, Maidstone Borough Council invested £3.1 million to regenerate Week Street and its continuation to the south, Gabriel's Hill