Local News & Events

Matfield Post Office will be re-opening soon in a new village shop to the rear of the Star Inn.
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From 34th June to 1st July, Matfield will be hosting a group of 25-30 visitors from Texas; a repeat of the last visit 12 years ago. We are looking for the people of Matfield to offer to provide bed and breakfast for our guests, with the occasional meal, as an objective of the holiday is for them to experience life in an English village.

On Saturday 13 March, 11am – 12.30pm, Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery is organising a guided walk around the unique sandstone outcrops of Rusthall Common and Happy Valley.

The Carmen Souza quartet will be performing at Brenchley Memorial Hall on 30th April. Ticket numbers are limited and available at £15.

Business Link is a publicly-funded business support organisation, charged with helping established local businesses to develop and grow.

Brenchley and Matfield Bowls Club is holding a Barn Dance at Matfield Village Hall on Saturday 13 March 2010 from 7.30 - 11.30pm.

Kent County Council has issued a news release announcing formally that the proposal to close Critten Road has been dropped.

Following the exhibition and presentation of plans for affordable housing in Matfield earlier in the year, planning permission has now been granted for six affordable homes in Chestnut Lane.

Would you like to know what goes on at the Matfield Fire Station? One of the firefighters has started an online blog (diary). You can read it at www.matfieldfirestation.blogspot.com .

Brenchley and Matfield Local History Society has published a new book on parish history containing many wonderful Victorian photographs.