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Langton Green
(Modern village and Old Quarry)

General Details

Langton Green lies on the A Tunbridge Wells to East Grinstead road, between Rusthall , Groombridge , Speldhurst and Eridge .

The area provided work for a long time as a farming and a quarrying area, the quarry lies about 1/2 mile towards Speldhurst . Stone from this quarry was used to rebuild Speldhurst church after it was destroyed by lightning, the church in the village and that of Rusthall were also built from the sandstone quarried here.

The area used to be called Lankton and was in the parish of Speldhurst , but the main road through the village created business, and the village formed to provide services to travellers alongside the green.

The village used to lie in the Parish of Speldhurst , but in the early 1860's a Chapel of Ease was built and was consecrated as a church which is now All Saints in 1881.

The village is now a satellite of Tunbridge Wells and merges with Rusthall providing housing for commuters and workers for Tunbridge Wells .

Services

Langton Green has a few local village shops , a petrol station a public house and the church.

The nearest major shopping centre, railway lines and bus services can be found about 4 miles to the east in Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Views

Langton Green has some nice lanes surrounding the green.

The road to Speldhurst is quite pretty, but the best views are down the road to Eridge and the High Rocks, with some very twisty small lanes and steep fields providing interest.

Name Derivation

Langton Green is probably derived from the late Saxon period Lang tun(The long settlement).

Nearby Villages (within 6 miles)

Groombridge (Home of the Groombridge Gang) 0.8 miles

Fordcombe (UK) 1.1 miles

Rusthall (The Toad Rock) 1.5 miles

Speldhurst (Nobleman captured at Agincourt) 1.6 miles

Ashurst (Miraculous Carving) 1.7 miles

Broomhill (Swept away by the Storm) 2.2 miles

Eridge Green (The home of the Neville and Abergavenny Family) 2.2 miles

Blackham (Roughs and Prize Fighters) 2.7 miles

Penshurst (Coming Soon) 2.9 miles

Bidborough () 3.3 miles

Frant (King Johns hunting lodge) 3.7 miles

Withyham (De La Warrs and Sackvilles) 3.7 miles

Hartfield (A.A.Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh) 4.4 miles

Bells Yew Green (The ruins of Bayham Abbey) 4.8 miles

Markbeech (Coming Soon) 4.8 miles

Chiddingstone (A perfect Tudor village) 4.9 miles

Chiddingstone Causeway (Penshurst Station ??) 4.9 miles

Leigh () 4.9 miles

Crowborough (The home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) 5.0 miles

Pembury (The ghost of Hawkwell) 5.4 miles

Mark Cross (Policeman arrests eccentric landowner) 5.5 miles

Rotherfield (Source of the rivers Rother and Uck) 5.6 miles

Hever (Anne Boleyn and the Castle) 5.7 miles

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