Brattle is one of the settlements making up the

dispersed village A dispersed settlement, also known as a scattered settlement, is one of the main types of Human settlement, settlement patterns used by Landscape history, landscape historians to classify rural settlements found in England and other parts of the ...

of Woodchurch in

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

, England. It is at the southern apex of the triangle of roads which are the main village.

Derivations

The surname Brattle is of geographical, place name origin. It was borne by one of the "Gentlemen's Families" living on estates in or near 18th century

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the capital city, state capital and List of municipalities in Massachusetts, most populous city of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financ ...

, America (see Inman Square#History). After them are named Brattle Square and Brattle Street in neighbouring

Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Greater Boston, Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most ...

as well as Boston's Brattle Street. Derived, in turn, from these are the names of the

Brattle Street Church The Brattle Street Church (1698–1876) was a Congregational (1698 – c. 1805) and Unitarian (c. 1805–1876) church on Brattle Street in Boston, Massachusetts. History In January 1698, "Thomas Brattle conveyed the land on which the meet ...

in Boston and the

Brattle Theatre The Brattle Theatre is a repertory movie theater located in Brattle Hall at 40 Brattle Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The theatre is a small movie house with one screen. It is one of the few remaining movie theaters, if n ...

in Cambridge. {{authority control Villages in Kent