Cranbrook is a town in the civil parish of Cranbrook and also Sissinghurst, in the Weald of Kent in South East England. It exists approximately half-way in between Maidstone as well as Hastings, regarding 38 miles (61 kilometres) southeast of main London. The smaller sized settlements of Sissinghurst, Swattenden, Colliers Green as well as Hartley lie within the civil church. The population of the parish was 6,717 in 2011. Since the decrease of the cloth profession, agriculture became the pillar of the economic situation. Located on the Maidstone to Hastings roadway, it is 5 miles north of Hawkhurst. Baker's Cross is on the eastern borders of the town. Cranbrook gets on the Hastings Beds, rotating sands and clays which are a lot more resistant to disintegration than the bordering clays therefore create capitals of the High Weald. The geology of the area has actually played a significant duty in the community's advancement, deposits of iron ore as well as fuller's earth was necessary in the iron market and towel sector respectively.