Crowborough

England, United Kingdom
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Crowborough, town (parish), Wealden district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England. It lies 40 miles (64 km) southeast of central London and serves as the district’s administrative centre.

A hilltop town, it is situated on the highest of the wooded ridges that comprise The Weald (between 500 and 800 feet [150 and 240 metres]). Crowborough is located in a forest area where settlement is typically in small hamlets linked by a maze of narrow lanes, and the town has grown by the joining together of a number of those hamlets so that the present urban area is a diffuse, disjointed spread of houses and shops. Pop. (2001) 19,939; (2011) 20,951.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.