Swattenden

Swattenden
Swattenden Location within Kent
Civil parish	Cranbrook and Sissinghurst
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
UK Parliament	Weald of Kent [1]
List of places UK England Kent 51°04′56″N0°31′48″E / 51.082290°N 0.530130°E / 51.082290; 0.530130

Swattenden is a small settlement in the parish of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst in England.

It is situated on the B2086 (Swattenden Lane) about 1 mile (1.6 km) from Hartley, where the A229 crosses the settlement. It has an agricultural/country shop, a fruit farm and a fishing 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. ^[2] It was used to house asylum seekers for a number of years. ^[3]

Toponymy

The suffix -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. ^[4]

References

1. "Location of Weald of Kent". parliament.uk. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
2. BBC Domesday, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-576000-132000/page/7
3. "Kent County Council to re-open Swattenden Centre in Cranbrook for young asylum seekers". KentOnline. 3 September 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
4. Glover, Judith (1976). The place Names of Kent (Meresborough Books 1992 ed.). Batsford. p. 186. ISBN   0-905270-61-4.