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TUNBRIDGE WELLS

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 376 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TUNBRIDGE See also:

WELLS , a municipal See also:borough and inland watering-See also:place of See also:England, chiefly in the See also:Tonbridge See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Kent, but extending into the eastern division of See also:Sussex, 341 M. S.E. by S. of See also:London by the See also:South Eastern & See also:Chatham railway, served also by a See also:branch of the London See also:Brighton & South See also:Coast See also:line. Pop. (1891), 29,296; (1901), 33373• It owes its popularity to its chalybeate See also:spring and its beautiful situation in a hilly wooded See also:district. The wells are situated by the See also:Parade (or Pantiles), a walk associated with See also:fashion since the See also:time of their See also:discovery. It was paved with pantiles in the reign of See also:Queen See also:Anne. See also:Reading and See also:assembly rooms adjoin the See also:pump-See also:room. The See also:town is built in a picturesquely irregular manner, and a large See also:part of it consists of districts called " parks " occupied by villas and mansions. On Rusthall See also:Common about a mile from the town is the curiously shaped See also:mass of See also:sandstone known as the See also:Toad See also:Rock, and a mile and a See also:half south-See also:west is the striking See also:group called the High Rocks. The Tunbridge Wells See also:sanatorium is situated in grounds sixty acres in extent. Five See also:miles south-See also:east of Tunbridge Wells is Bayham See also:Abbey, founded in 1200, where ruins of a See also:church, a gateway, and dependent buildings adjoin the See also:modern Tudor See also:mansion. Three miles south, in Sussex, the See also:village of Frant stands on a See also:hill which is perhaps the finest of the many view-points in this district, commanding a wide prospect over some of the richest woodland scenery in England.

The vicinity of See also:

Tun-See also:bridge Wells is largely residential. To the See also:north lies the See also:urban district of SOUTHBOROUGH (pop. 6977). There is a large See also:trade in Tunbridge See also:ware, which includes See also:work-tables, boxes, toys, &c., made of hard See also:woods, such as See also:beech, sycamore, See also:holly, and See also:cherry, and inlaid with See also:mosaic. Tunbridge Wells was incorporated in 1889, and is governed by a See also:mayor, 8 aldermen and 24 councillors. See also:Area, 3991 acres. The town owes its rise to the discovery of the medicinal springs by See also:Dudley, See also:Lord North, in 16o6. Henrietta Maria, wife of See also:Charles I., retired to drink the See also:waters at Tunbridge Wells after the See also:birth of her eldest son Charles. Soon after the Restoration it was visited by Charles II. and See also:Catherine of See also:Braganza. It was a favourite See also:residence of the princess Anne previous to her See also:accession to the See also:throne, and from that time became one of the See also:chief resorts of London fashionable society. In this respect it reached its height in the second half of the 18th See also:century, and is specially associated with See also:Colley See also:Cibber, See also:Samuel See also:Johnson, See also:Cumberland the dramatist, See also:David See also:Garrick, Samuel See also:Richardson, See also:Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds, Beau See also:Nash, See also:Miss Chudleigh and Mrs Thrale. The Tunbridge Wells of that See also:period is sketched with much graphic See also:humour in See also:Thackeray's Virginians.

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