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Tunbridge Wells
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Royal Tunbridge Wells
The site of Tunbridge Wells was once a wilderness of forest and heath, although it is likely that the medicinal value of the local wells was appreciated in Elizabethan times. Within a few years of their discovery by London society in 1606, however, the Wells had become one of the leading English watering places. The celebrated Pantiles had been built by the end of the 17th century and the hills covered with lodging houses. The new community depended, at first, for its livelihood on the services it provided to summer visitors, but within a hundred years a leisured class of retired professional and business men, and single gentlewomen, had begun to settle here. The grant of self-governing powe...
Tunbridge Wells
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Tunbridge Wells Through Time
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Tunbridge Wells has changed and developed over the last century
