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Cranbrook

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Cranbrook

Village in Kent, southeast England, 21km/13 mi east of Tunbridge Wells; population (2001) 4,900. Some 3 km/2 mi to the northeast is Sissinghurst Castle. The three-storeyed Union Mill, built in 1814, is the largest working windmill in England (over 22 m/72 ft high).

Cranbrook came to prominence with the weaving industry. Cranbrook School was founded in 1574. St Dunstan's church dates from the 15th century and is sometimes known as ‘the Cathedral of the Weald’.

Cranbrook

City in East Kootenay Regional District, extreme southeastern British Columbia, Canada, in the Kootenay River Valley, on the west of the Rocky Mountain Trench, 539 km/335 mi east of Vancouver; population (1991) 16,400. A rail and highway junction, Cranbrook is a trade, distribution, and service centre for a ranching, lead and zinc mining, lumbering, and agricultural region. Tourism is also important.

In an area home to the Kootenay, the city developed with lumbering and the arrival (1898) of the railway.



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She also has served on numbers boards of directors for such philanthropic enterprises as the Frank Settlement, the Boys Republic, the Roeper School for Gifted Children, and Michigan's Brookside School Cranbrook.
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