Cranbrook
Built-up area in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
| Coordinates: | 51.098, 0.533 |
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| OS grid ref: | TQ 77 36 |
| Population: | 4,368 |
| Dialling code: | 01580 |
Cranbrook is a compact historic market town in the borough of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, tucked into the rolling woodlands and pastures of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Its streets and timber-framed buildings reflect centuries of rural industry - notably the former wool and cloth trade - and the surrounding landscape still shows the patterns of hop gardens, orchards and smallholdings that characterise the Weald.
The town has a strong local identity, with independent shops, a regular market feel and a lively community calendar; in the 19th century Cranbrook also gave its name to a small colony of genre painters who recorded rural life. Today it combines village charm with commuter links to larger towns and London, and is a convenient base for visiting nearby attractions such as Sissinghurst, making it popular with families and countryside enthusiasts.
Postcode districts covering Cranbrook
Most populated places nearby
- Hastings 15.5 miles
- Eastbourne 24.3 miles
- Maidstone 12 miles
- Gillingham 19.1 miles
- Chatham 18.2 miles
- Royal Tunbridge Wells 11.8 miles
- Ashford 15.1 miles
- Gravesend 23.6 miles
- Sittingbourne 19.7 miles
- Bexhill-on-Sea 17.6 miles
- Tonbridge 13.1 miles
- Sevenoaks 19.4 miles
Neighbouring places
- Cranbrook & Sissinghurst Parish 0.7 miles
- Hartley Built-up area 1.1 miles
- Coursehorn Built-up area 1.1 miles
- Sissinghurst Built-up area 1.3 miles
- Cranbrook, Sissinghurst & Frittenden Ward 1.6 miles
- Cranbrook Common Built-up area 1.8 miles
- Benenden Built-up area 2.6 miles
- Goudhurst Built-up area 3.3 miles
- Hawkhurst, Sandhurst & Benenden Ward 3.3 miles
- Gun Green Built-up area 3.3 miles
- Curtisden Green Built-up area 3.6 miles
- East End Built-up area 3.7 miles
Example postcodes in Cranbrook
TN17 3EP, TN17 2PJ, TN17 3BJ, TN17 3DE, TN17 3HP, TN17 3EJ, TN17 9FZ, TN17 3BS, TN17 3JA … See all
Transport links
- London Gatwick Airport 31.1 miles
- London Southend Airport 33.5 miles
- Staplehurst Railway Station 5.1 miles
- Marden Railway Station 5.6 miles
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Schools in Cranbrook
- Cranbrook C of E Primary School Primary
- Cranbrook School Secondary
Local points of interest
- Bedgebury Walled Garden Gardens 4 miles
- Bedgebury Park Woods Forest 4.2 miles
- Minepit Wood Forest 5.7 miles
- Pulans Wood Forest 5.8 miles
- Court Lodge Estate Estate 5.8 miles
- Hale Wood Forest 5.9 miles
- Hayden Wood Forest 5.9 miles
- Parsonage Wood Forest 6.3 miles
- Robertsbridge Abbey Historic site 7.8 miles
- Bayham Abbey Estate 7.9 miles
- Boughton Place Estate 8.2 miles
- Yalding Gardens Gardens 9.3 miles