Sissinghurst
Sissinghurst is a small village in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. Originally called Milkhouse Street, Sissinghurst changed its name in the 1850s, possibly to avoid association with the smuggling and cockfighting activities of the Hawkhurst Gang.Photo: Immanuel Giel, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sissinghurst Castle Garden and Union Mill.
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
Garden
Photo: Schnobby, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in England, was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat.
Union Mill
Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Union Mill is a Grade I listed smock mill in Cranbrook, Kent, England, which has been restored to working order. It is the tallest smock mill in the United Kingdom.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cranbrook and Horden.
Cranbrook
Photo: ClemRutter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cranbrook is a town in the civil parish of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst, in the Weald of Kent in South East England. It lies roughly half-way between Maidstone and Hastings, about 38 miles southeast of central London.
Horden
Hamlet
Horden is a village in the Maidstone district of Kent, England. The population is included in the civil parish of Goudhurst. The village takes its name from the Horden family: Edward Horden was a courtier to three Tudor monarchs, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, serving as Clerk of the Green Cloth. Horden is situated 3 miles northwest of Sissinghurst.
Hartley
Village
Hartley is a village one mile southwest of Cranbrook, in the civil parish of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst, in the Tunbridge Wells district, in Kent, England. Hartley is situated 3 miles southwest of Sissinghurst.
Sissinghurst
- Category: locality
- Location: Cranbrook, Tunbridge Wells District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.11006° or 51° 6′ 36″ northLongitude
0.56113° or 0° 33′ 40″ eastPopulation
1,070Elevation
259 feet (79 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SSGOpen location code
9F324H66+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 251478541OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Sissinghurst” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Sissinghurst”
- French: “Sissinghurst”
- German: “Sissinghurst”
- Irish: “Sissinghurst”
- Italian: “Sissinghurst”
- Japanese: “シシングハースト”
- Japanese: “シッシングハースト”
- Polish: “Sissinghurst”
- Russian: “Сиссингхерст”
- Spanish: “Sissinghurst”
- Swedish: “Sissinghurst”
- Welsh: “Sissinghurst”
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