Kilndown

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Kilndown
Kilndown Church
Kilndown Kilndown shown within Kent
Civil parish	Goudhurst
District	Tunbridge Wells
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Cranbrook
Postcode district	TN17
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
List of places UK England Kent

Kilndown is a hamlet 5 miles (8 km) west of Cranbrook in Kent, England.

History

Kilndown was established in the 1840s by Viscount Beresford.^[1]

William Carr Beresford, First Viscount Beresford, British general and politician, died here on 8 January 1856 at age 85.

Christ Church, Kilndown was built in 1841. It is built in a unique Gothic revival style.

Kilndown

Wadhurst

v t e Goudhurst

Locations in the parish of Goudhurst	Bedgebury Cross Curtisden Green Kilndown

Buildings	Bedgebury Forge Bedgebury Furnace Chingley Forge Chingley Furnace Finchcocks Glassenbury Mill Goudhurst Church Goudhurst station HMP Blantyre House Hope Mill Kilndown Church Pattyndenne Manor Triggs Mill

People	Ernest Benians William Beresford Harry Christophers Gerald Dickens Leonard Franklin Stephen Groombridge Daniel Horsmanden Stephen Law Hopper Levett Richard Milbourne Alfred Mynn William Rootes

Schools	Bethany School

Sport, arts and leisure	Bedgebury Forest Bedgebury National Pinetum Bewl Water

v t e Towns and villages in the Borough of Tunbridge Wells

	Ashurst Baker's Cross Beal's Green Bedgebury Cross Benenden Bidborough Brenchley Capel Colliers Green Coursehorn Cranbrook Culverden Down Curtisden Green Five Oak Green Frittenden Goudhurst Groombridge Hartley Hawkenbury Hawkhurst High Brooms Horsmonden Kilndown Lamberhurst Langton Green Matfield Paddock Wood Park Pembury Royal Tunbridge Wells Rusthall Sandhurst Southborough Speldhurst Stone Cross Sissinghurst Swattenden

List of places in Kent

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