Swattenden

Swattenden
Swattenden
Swattenden shown within Kent
Civil parish	Cranbrook
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
List of places UK England Kent 51°04′56″N 0°31′48″E / 51.082290°N 0.530130°E / 51.082290; 0.530130Coordinates: 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 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.

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.

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