Cranbrook is a small town in the civil parish of Cranbrook and also Sissinghurst, in the Weald of Kent in South East England. It exists roughly half-way in between Maidstone and also Hastings, concerning 38 miles (61 km) southeast of main London. The smaller settlements of Sissinghurst, Swattenden, Colliers Green as well as Hartley exist within the civil parish. The population of the parish was 6,717 in 2011. Since the decline of the cloth profession, farming became the mainstay of the economic situation. Situated 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 also clays which are a lot more immune to erosion than the surrounding clays and so develop capitals of the High Weald. The geology of the area has played a major duty in the community's advancement, deposits of iron ore and also fuller's earth was essential in the iron sector and towel market respectively.