Cranbrook
Cranbrook is a village in the civil parish of Cranbrook and also Sissinghurst, in the Weald of Kent in South East England. It exists roughly half-way between Maidstone and also Hastings, regarding 38 miles (61 km) southeast of central London. The smaller negotiations of Sissinghurst, Swattenden, Colliers Green as well as Hartley lie within the civil parish. The population of the parish was 6,717 in 2011. Since the decline of the cloth trade, farming came to be the pillar of the economy. Situated on the Maidstone to Hastings roadway, it is 5 miles north of Hawkhurst. Baker's Cross gets on the eastern borders of the town. Cranbrook gets on the Hastings Beds, alternating sands and also clays which are extra resistant to disintegration than the surrounding clays therefore develop capitals of the High Weald. The geology of the area has played a major function in the town's growth, deposits of iron ore and also fuller's earth were important in the iron market and fabric sector respectively.
