Edenbridge
Edenbridge is a town and also civil parish in the Sevenoaks area of Kent, England. Its name derives from Old English Eadhelmsbrigge (significance "Eadhelm's Bridge"). It is located on the Kent/ Surrey border on the top floodplain of the River Medway and offers its name to the latter's tributary, the River Eden. The community has a population of around 9,000. Edenbridge is twinned with Mont-Saint-Aignan in France. The bypass that was built in the early 2000s to relieve traffic stress on the old, narrow High Street is called Mont St Aignan Way. There are 2 banks in the town, a post office beside the church and also a number of major retail chains. Regardless of being a relatively town, Edenbridge boasts its own healthcare facility - The Edenbridge War Memorial Hospital. Originally a cottage medical facility constructed to care for soldiers returning from The First World War, a function constructed building was established to the south of the town in 1931. With an Out Patients Department, Physiotherapy centers as well as a Minor Injuries Unit the hospital is a major part of the material of the town. In recent years the hospital has been confronted with closure sometimes, on each event it has been saved by neighborhood campaigners and townspeople, that see the medical facility as a crucial part of the neighborhood.
