Cranbrook
Cranbrook is a town in the civil parish of Cranbrook as well as Sissinghurst, in the Weald of Kent in South East England. It lies about half-way between Maidstone as well as Hastings, regarding 38 miles (61 km) southeast of central London. The smaller sized settlements of Sissinghurst, Swattenden, Colliers Environment-friendly and also Hartley exist within the civil church. The population of the parish was 6,717 in 2011. Because the decline of the cloth profession, farming became the mainstay of the economic situation. Found on the Maidstone to Hastings road, 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 clays which are much more immune to erosion than the surrounding clays and so create capitals of the High Weald. The geology of the area has played a significant role in the town's development, down payments of iron ore and fuller's planet were important in the iron market and fabric industry respectively.