Cranbrook
Cranbrook is a town in the civil parish of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst, in the Weald of Kent in South East England. It exists about half-way between Maidstone and also Hastings, about 38 miles (61 kilometres) southeast of main London. The smaller sized settlements of Sissinghurst, Swattenden, Colliers Environment-friendly and Hartley lie within the civil parish. The population of the parish was 6,717 in 2011. Because the decrease of the cloth trade, farming became the mainstay of the economic situation. Located on the Maidstone to Hastings road, it is 5 miles north of Hawkhurst. Baker's Cross is on the eastern outskirts of the community. Cranbrook gets on the Hastings Beds, rotating sands as well as clays which are more resistant to erosion than the surrounding clays therefore create the hills of the High Weald. The geology of the location has played a significant role in the community's development, deposits of iron ore as well as fuller's planet was necessary in the iron industry as well as fabric market specifically.