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Frant is a village about 3 miles south of Tunbridge Wells, just over the Sussex border, known for St Alban's Church and its annual Sloe Gin World Championships.

Frant is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, on the Kentish border about three miles south of Royal Tunbridge Wells. Excavations in 1929 uncovered pottery and ironworking evidence of a settlement dating back to 100 BC, and the name comes from the Anglo-Saxon for a place of ferns or bracken. The parish also takes in Eridge and Bells Yew Green.

St Alban's Church was a major surveying point for the Anglo-French Survey of 1784 to 1790, which measured the relationship between the Paris and Greenwich observatories. Holy Trinity Church in Eridge stands near Eridge Park on the A26, and Bells Yew Green has its own chapel. The George Inn hosts the Sloe Gin World Championships every December.

The A267 runs through the village, linking Tunbridge Wells with Hailsham. Frant railway station is on the Hastings Line at Bells Yew Green, about 1.2 miles from the village, with hourly Southeastern services between Hastings and London Charing Cross. Note that Frant is in East Sussex rather than Kent, although it uses a TN3 postcode.