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February 2005
- February 2005 The new town is officially named Cranbrook. East Devon District Council voted for Cranbrook over Newton Lockyer by one vote for its official name.
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Early in the 13th century Cranbrook became an administrative seat with its own court. By 1290 the town was large enough to be granted a charter by Archbishop Peckham, allowing it to hold a market in the High Street. The market was held twice a week, with a fair twice a year, for nearly 600 years.
Cranbrook is a town in the civil parish of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst, ... By 1610 the name had become Cranbrooke, which evolved into the current spelling. [2] [3]
Historic Cranbrook. The City of Cranbrook began as a railway town with the arrival in 1898 of the Crowsnest Railway, bypassing the more established community of Fort Steele in favour of property owned by Colonel James Baker.
Cranbrook in 1836. Cranbrook, the principal town in the Weald of Kent, is in the hundred of Cranbrook in the lathe of Scray, 48 miles from London Bridge. The parish comprehends 10,460 acres, and had in 1831 a population of 3,844, about half agricultural. Cranbrook is irregularly built.
Aug 28, 2020 · Known as the capital of the Kentish Weald, the village has seen the rise and fall of key Kent industry including agriculture which saw hop gardens and local orchards flourish putting Cranbrook on the map as an important market town.
Sep 20, 2012 · When Cranbrook became a centre of Flemish weaving, its rich and pious merchants built a substantial stone church, enlarged and improved it throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, the period of the town's greatest wealth, and also endowed the Tudor school (which evolved into Cranbrook’s large independent day/boarding school), and other ...
Aug 9, 2019 · From its inception to the current day, this is where Cranbrook is now (including the current trigger points for the promised future town facilities).
