Five Oak Green is a village near Tonbridge

Tonbridge

Tonbridge is a market town in the English county of Kent, with a population of 30,340 in 2007. It is located on the River Medway, approximately 4 miles north of Tunbridge Wells, 12 miles south west of Maidstone and 29 miles south east of London...

, Kent

Kent

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 in the parish of Capel

Capel, Kent

Capel is a village and civil parish in the Tunbridge Wells District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the north of the Weald, three miles to the east of Tonbridge....

. It was a centre for hop growing and in the 19th century" The Rose and crown" public house

Public house

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 was converted to a hospital

Hospital

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 to treat the many hop pickers who resided in the village and its surroundings in the late summer. The pub was renamed "The Little Hoppers Hospital" by a London priest who added to the pubs sign "No beer sold here" so no one should have any doubt of its changed role.

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