Paddock Wood

Paddock Wood is a large town and civil parish within the Borough of Tunbridge Wells and county of Kent in England, approximately 8 miles southwest of Maidstone. At the time of the 2001 census it had a populace of 8,263, falling marginally to 8,253 at the 2011 Census, and is the centre for hop developing in Kent. Since 1974 Paddock Wood has formed a part of the Borough of Tunbridge Wells. The borough is governed via a 48-member council.

The city elects four borough councillors, with 2 each for the Paddock Wood East and Paddock Wood West wards. They are all contributors of the general public Conservative Party. The top tier of local authorities is furnished via Kent County Council. The county council has 84 individuals, with each representing an electoral district. Paddock Wood paperwork a part of the electoral district of Tunbridge Wells Rural.

Mascalls Gallery, a public art gallery opened in 2006 at the website online of Mascalls Academy. It had a regularly converting programme of exhibition proposing countrywide and international regarded artists. These included Henry Moore, LS Lowry, Graham Sutherland and Lee Miller in addition to artists from Latin America, Japan and America. In 2010 Mascalls Gallery exhibited for the primary time within the UK drawings via Marc Chagall for close by Tudeley Church.