Cranbrook
Cranbrook is a Town in the county of Kent.
Cranbrook postcode: TN17 3ES
There are great places to visit near Cranbrook including some great towns, historic buildings, beaches, parks, museums, castles, shopping centres, cities, ruins, country parks, lakes, coastal parks and airports.
Cranbrook has some unmissable towns nearby like Faversham, Broadstairs, St Peter's, Ramsgate, Chatham, Margate, and Dover.
There are a several good historic buildings in the Cranbrook area like Nuckell's Alsmshouses, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Palace Cinema, Clock Tower Broadstairs, The Look Out House, Bleak House, and Home for Smack Boys.
Beaches to visit near Cranbrook include Viking Bay, and Dumpton Gap.
Places near Cranbrook feature a number of interesting parks including Victoria Gardens.
Places near Cranbrook feature a number of interesting museums including Ramsgate Maritime Museum.
Dover Castle, Rochester Castle, Leeds Castle, and Tonbridge Castle are great places to visit near Cranbrook if you like castles.
The area around Cranbrook boasts some of the best shopping centres including Royal Victoria Place, and Bluewater Shopping Centre.
There are a several good cities in the area around Cranbrook like Canterbury.
There are a number of ruins near to Cranbrook including Tonbridge Castle.
The area around Cranbrook boasts some of the best country parks including Haysden Country Park, and Barton's Point Coastal Park.
There are a several good lakes in the area around Cranbrook like Barden Lake.
Places near Cranbrook feature a number of interesting coastal parks including Barton's Point Coastal Park.
Cranbrook is near some unmissable airports like Lydd Airport,
Cranbrook History
There are some historic monuments around Cranbrook:
Places to see near Cranbrook
History of Cranbrook
Baker’s Cross on the eastern edge of the town is linked to John Baker, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Queen Mary, a Catholic. Legend holds that he was riding on his way to Cranbrook in order to have two local Protestants executed, when he turned back after the news reached him that Queen Mary was dead. Different versions of the legend have it that he heard the parish church bells ringing, or that he was met by a messenger. The place where this happened was, in the words of biographer and historian Arthur Irwin Dasent, “at a place where three roads meet, known to this day as Baker’s Cross”. Popular legend also has it that Baker was killed at Baker’s Cross; although in fact he died in his house in London. The town developed around the “King’s High Road” (now named as High Street, Stone Street and Waterloo Road) until the Second World War. Following the war, additional housing was built adjacent to the historic centre - the Wheatfield Estate to the north and the Frythe Estate to the south. In the 1970s a Conservation Area was designated in the town centre. In 1974 Cranbrook Rural District was merged into the Borough of Tunbridge Wells. In 2010 Francis Rook of the Liberal Democrats won one of the three council seats in the Benenden and Cranbrook ward from the Conservatives to become one of only 6 non-Conservative councillors out of 48 in the borough.
