CRANBROOK, a market-town, south Kent, England, 4o m. S.E. of London on a branch of the S.R. Pop. of rural district 12,925. It lies on the Crane brook, a feeder of the river Beult, in a hilly and wooded district. The church (mainly Per pendicular) is dedicated to St. Dunstan, and has some ancient stained glass. As the agricultural centre of the Kentish Weald, it trades in malt, hops and general goods; but from the 14th to the I7th century, it was one of the principal seats of broadcloth manu facture. There is a grammar school of Elizabethan foundation.