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sissinghurst

{{Short description|Village in Kent, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

|country = England

|official_name= Sissinghurst

| static_image = Chapel, The Street, Sissinghurst, Kent - geograph.org.uk - 483614.jpg

| static_image_caption = The Street, Sissinghurst

|coordinates = {{coord|51.1073|0.5634|display=inline,title}}

|population =

|civil_parish = Cranbrook and Sissinghurst

|shire_district= Tunbridge Wells

| shire_county = Kent

|region= South East England

|constituency_westminster= Weald of Kent{{cite web|title=Location of Weald of Kent |url= https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/4385/location |website=parliament.uk|access-date=14 February 2025}}

|post_town= CRANBROOK

|postcode_district= TN17

|postcode_area=TN

|dial_code= 01580

|os_grid_reference= TQ795373

}}

Sissinghurst is a small village in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. Originally called Milkhouse Street (also referred to as Mylkehouse), Sissinghurst changed its name{{cite book | title=A Glimpse at Cranbrook - The Town of the Weald | author=Martin, W Stanley | year=1896 | publisher=E. J. Holmes | location=Cranbrook | pages=78 | url=http://www.theweald.org/B10.asp?BookId=Glimpse078}}[http://www.theweald.org/B10.asp?BookId=Glimpse078] in the 1850s, possibly to avoid association with the smuggling and cockfighting activities of the Hawkhurst Gang.[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sissinghurstexposed2/page6.html Paul and Mina Tully: Sissinghurst Exposed... a New Slant on an Old Village] It is in the civil parish of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst.

The nearest railway station is at Staplehurst, {{convert|4|mi|km|1}} to the north.

Geography

Sissinghurst is situated with Cranbrook to the south, Goudhurst to the west, Tenterden to the east and Staplehurst to the north. It sits just back from the A229 which goes from Rochester to Hawkhurst.

History

Sissinghurst's history is similar to that of nearby Cranbrook. Iron Age working tools have been found{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} and the village was for centuries a meeting and resting place for people travelling towards the south coast.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}

Sissinghurst Castle Garden

{{Main|Sissinghurst Castle Garden}}

Sissinghurst's garden was created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West,Glendinning, Victoria Vita- the life of Vita Sackville-West George Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1983 poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. Sackville-West was a writer on the fringes of the Bloomsbury group who found her greatest popularity in the weekly columns she contributed as gardening correspondent of The Observer, which incidentally – for she never touted it – made her own garden famous. The garden itself is designed as a series of "rooms", each with a different character of colour and/or theme, divided by high clipped hedges and pink brick walls.

Trinity Church

File:Trinity Church, The Street, Sissinghurst, Kent - geograph.org.uk - 483610.jpg

The Church of England 'Trinity Church' and was built in 1838. It is currently managed by Rev. Pete Deaves who is also Rector of Frittenden.{{Cite web|title=Our new Rector - Rev Pete Deaves - News - Trinity Church, Sissinghurst - A Church Near You|url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/8002/news/6648/our-new-rector-rev-pete-deaves/|date=2020-02-28|website=www.achurchnearyou.com|language=en|access-date=2020-05-04}}

People

People of note who have lived in Sissinghurst include:

References

External links

{{Commons category|Sissinghurst}}

  • [https://cranbrookandsissinghurstpc.co.uk Cranbrook and Sissinghurst Parish Council]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20140223125417/http://sissinghurst-village.blog.co.uk/ Sissinghurst Village website]

{{Geographic location

|Centre = Sissinghurst

|North = Staplehurst

|Northeast = Frittenden

|East = Biddenden

|Southeast = Rolvenden

|South = Golford
Benenden

|Southwest = Cranbrook

|West = Goudhurst

|Northwest = Cranbrook Common

}}

{{Tunbridge Wells}}

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Category:Villages in Kent