Swattenden

Swattenden
Swattenden Swattenden shown within Kent
District	Tunbridge Wells
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CRANBROOK
Postcode district	TN17
Dialling code	01580
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
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Coordinates: 51°04′56″N 0°31′48″E / 51.082290°N 0.530130°E / 51.082290; 0.530130

Swattenden is a small settlement near Cranbrook, Kent (where, at the 2011 Census, the population was included), UK. It is situated on the B2086 (Swattenden Lane) about a mile from Hartley, where the A229 crosses the settlement. At Swattenden, one can find an agricultural/country shop, a fruit farm, fishing centre, and the Swattenden Centre.

Swattenden House

Swattenden House is a mansion built in 1860. It was the site of Swattenden Secondary School for Boys which moved to Angley School in 1972. It then became the "Swattenden Centre", a Kent County Council residential education centre, in 1976.^[1]

Toponymy

The suffx -enden is found in many place names in the Kentish Weald, meaning the pasture or clearing in the forest belonging to the people of a named person. Here the person was called Swaeðel. In 1240, the Old English Swaeðeling denn, was written as Swetlingdenn, in 1260 it was spelled Swetlyngdenne and in 1305 Swethyngden. ^[2]

References

↑ BBC Domesday, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-576000-132000/page/7
↑ Glover, Judith (1976). The place Names of Kent (Meresborough Books 1992 ed.). Batsford. p. 186. ISBN 0-905270-61-4.

External links

The Swattenden Centre

Cranbrook

Locations in the parish of Cranbrook	Baker's Cross Coursehorn Hartley Swattenden

Buildings	Angley Mill Anthony's Mill Baker's Cross Mill Church Cranbrook station Dog Kennel Mill Fulling mill at Moat Farm Fulling mill at The Freight Hartridge Mill Hatmill Hockeredge Mill Paley Mill Pin Pond Mill Spratsbourne Mill Strict Baptist Chapel Union Mill Upper Mill

People	See List of people from Cranbrook

Schools	Cranbrook School

Sport, arts and leisure	Cranbrook Colony School Field Swifts Park

Towns and villages in the Borough of Tunbridge Wells

	Ashurst Baker's Cross Beal's Green Bedgebury Cross Benenden Bidborough Brenchley Capel Colliers Green Coursehorn Cranbrook Culverden Down Curtisden Green Five Oak Green Frittenden Goudhurst Groombridge Hartley Hawkenbury Hawkhurst High Brooms Horsmonden Kilndown Lamberhurst Langton Green Matfield Paddock Wood Park Pembury Royal Tunbridge Wells Rusthall Sandhurst Southborough Speldhurst Stone Cross Sissinghurst Swattenden

List of places in Kent

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