Photo of Cranbrook, a village in the High Weald, Kent, south east England.

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Cranbrook

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Cranbrook is a small Wealden town below Union Mill, a white weatherboarded smock mill said to be the tallest in England. The town made its money in the medieval cloth trade and has a big “wool church” to show for it. There’s no station close by; Staplehurst is about 8km north.

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Photo of the High Weald, a National Landscape in south east England.

High Weald

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Wooded ridges, sunken lanes and deep stream valleys across the old iron country of the south-east

Photo of Union Mill, a windmill near Cranbrook in the High Weald, Kent, south east England.

Union Mill

Windmill near Cranbrook

The tallest smock mill in England, white weatherboarded and still milling flour on the edge of Cranbrook.

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Photo of Sissinghurst Castle, a Grade I registered house & garden near Cranbrook, Kent, south east England.

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Vita Sackville-West's famous romantic garden rooms.

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Photo of Rolvenden Windmill, a windmill in the High Weald, Kent, south east England.

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Photo of Scotney Castle, a Grade I registered house & garden near Lamberhurst in the High Weald, Kent, south east England.

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Photo of Pashley Manor Gardens, a garden near Ticehurst in the High Weald, East Sussex, south east England.

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