Edenbridge
Edenbridge is a town as well as civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. Its name stems from Old English Eadhelmsbrigge (meaning "Eadhelm's Bridge"). It is located on the Kent/ Surrey approach the upper floodplain of the River Medway and also gives its name to the latter's tributary, the River Eden. The town has a population of around 9,000. Edenbridge is twinned with Mont-Saint-Aignan in France. The bypass that was integrated in the early 2000s to eliminate website traffic pressure on the old, slim High Street is named Mont St Aignan Way. There are two financial institutions in the community, a post office alongside the church as well as a variety of significant retail chains. Despite being a reasonably village, Edenbridge flaunts its own health center - The Edenbridge War Memorial Hospital. At first a cottage medical facility built to care for soldiers returning from The First World War, a function constructed building was developed to the south of the community in 1931. With an Out Patients Department, Physiotherapy facilities as well as a Minor Injuries Unit the hospital is a huge part of the textile of the community. Recently the health center has actually been confronted with closure often times, on each event it has been conserved by neighborhood campaigners as well as townspeople, that see the hospital as an essential part of the community.
