Swattenden House
Swattenden House is a mansion built in 1860. It was the site of Swattenden Secondary School for Boys which moved to Angley School in 1972. It then became the "Swattenden Centre", a Kent County Council residential education centre, in 1976.BBC Domesday, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-576000-132000/page/7Toponymy
The suffix ''-enden'' is found in many place names in the Kentish Weald, meaning the pasture or clearing in the forest belonging to the people of a named person. Here the person was called ''Swaeðel''. In 1240, the Old English ''Swaeðeling denn'', was written as ''Swetlingdenn'', in 1260 it was spelled ''Swetlyngdenne'' and in 1305 ''Swethyngden''.References
External links