Country: | England |
Official Name: | Hartley |
Coordinates: | 51.0842°N 0.5097°W |
Civil Parish: | Cranbrook and Sissinghurst |
Shire District: | Tunbridge Wells |
Shire County: | Kent |
Region: | South East England |
Constituency Westminster: | Maidstone and the Weald |
Post Town: | Cranbrook |
Postcode District: | TN17 |
Postcode Area: | TN |
Population: | 5 |
Hartley is a village one mile southwest of Cranbrook in Kent, England.[1] The only retailer in the area is a local farmshop, which has a cafe and fishmongers. Hartley lies on the A229.
Hartley Badgers are the local football team. Traditionally, only Hartley natives are eligible for selection- in a policy similar to that of Athletic Bilbao. They share the hosting of the annual grudge match against their fierce rivals, Gills Green Gulls. It is a historically hotly contested fixture, with three hospitalisations from crowd trouble in the last ten years.