Lamberhurst
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Lamberhurst () is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The parish contains the hamlets of The Down and Hook Green. At the 2001 Census it had a population of 1,491, increasing to 1,706 at the 2011 Census.
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- Locality
- Tunbridge Wells
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,147
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- The Broadway - geograph.org.uk - 2603990.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The Broadway
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Lamberhurst
- UK place.population
- 1,706
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Lamberhurst
- UK place.shire_district
- Tunbridge Wells
- UK place.shire_county
- Kent
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Tunbridge Wells
- UK place.post_town
- TUNBRIDGE WELLS
- UK place.postcode_district
- TN3
- UK place.postcode_area
- TN
- UK place.dial_code
- 01892
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TQ6736
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Lamberhurst () is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The parish contains the hamlets of The Down and Hook Green. At the 2001 Census it had a population of 1,491, increasing to 1,706 at the 2011 Census.
==History== thumb|St Mary's, Lamberhurst: The Annunciation to the Shepherds. Stained glass by John Piper. The place-name 'Lamberhurst' is first attested in the Textus Roffensis of circa 1100 AD, where it appears as Lamburherste. The name means 'lambs' hill or wood'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lamberhurst” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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