Cranbrook

[poliphilo]

In times past quaint, little Cranbrook was an industrial centre. When Elizabeth I visited the town she processed along a carpet a mile long that had been made for the occasion by local weavers. The mill on the hill is early 19th century- and still in working order.

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[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I thought Cranbrook sounded familiar, so I too googled it: it's the name of the hymn tune now best known with the words of Ilkley Moor (though we sing While Shepherds Watched to it). (More here).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that. I wonder how the Yorkshire county song came to be associated with a tune named after a town in Kent.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Short version: it's a hymn tune written by a man from Kent, adopted later by Yorkshire. (there are more details here, but that's the gist of it).