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Tunbridge Wells

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About Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells, previously just Tunbridge Wells, is a town in western Kent, England, forty miles south-east of valuable London, near the border with East Sussex upon the northern edge of the High Weald, whose sandstone geology is exemplified by means of the rock formations on the Wellington Rocks and High Rocks. The metropolis got here into being as a spa in the Restoration and loved its heyday as a vacationer lodge beneath Beau Nash whilst the Pantiles, and its chalybeate spring, attracted considerable numbers of site visitors who wanted to take the waters. Though its reputation as a spa town waned with the appearance of sea bathing, the city stays extraordinarily popular and derives a few 30 in step with cent of its income from the tourist enterprise.

The metropolis has a populace of around 56,500, and is the administrative centre of Tunbridge Wells Borough and the parliamentary constituency of Tunbridge Wells. Evidence shows that Iron Age people farmed the fields and mined the iron-wealthy rocks in the Tunbridge Wells place, and excavations in 1940 and 1957–61 by using James Money at High Rocks exposed the remains of a defensive hill-fortress. It is notion that the web site turned into occupied into the generation of Roman Britain, and the vicinity persevered to be a part of the Wealden iron enterprise until its loss of life within the past due 18th century. An iron forge stays inside the grounds of Bayham Abbey, in use till 1575 and documented until 1714.

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