Cranbrook
Cranbrook is a town 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, concerning 38 miles (61 km) southeast of central London. The smaller settlements of Sissinghurst, Swattenden, Colliers Environment-friendly and Hartley lie within the civil parish. The population of the parish was 6,717 in 2011. Considering that the decline of the cloth trade, agriculture 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 is on the eastern outskirts of the community. Cranbrook is on the Hastings Beds, alternating sands as well as clays which are more resistant to erosion than the surrounding clays and so create capitals of the High Weald. The geology of the area has played a major duty in the town's advancement, deposits of iron ore and also fuller's planet was very important in the iron market and towel industry respectively.