Key facts
- Population
- 59,947 (2016)
- Os grid reference
- TQ585395
- London
- 33 mi (53 km) NNW
- District
- Tunbridge Wells
- Shire county
- Kent
- Region
- South East
- Country
- England
- Sovereign state
- United Kingdom
- Post town
- TUNBRIDGE WELLS
- Postcode district
- TN1-TN4
- Dialling code
- 01892
- Police
- Kent
- Fire
- Kent
- Ambulance
- South East Coast
- Uk parliament
- Tunbridge Wells
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- market town
- Official name
- Тънбридж Уелс
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Tunbridge Wells
- Population
- 57772
- Elevation
- 97
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Capital of
- Tunbridge Wells
- Shares border with
- Tonbridge
- Image
- The Pantiles, Royal Tunbridge Wells - geograph.org.uk - 530188.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01892
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- twinned administrative body
- Wiesbaden
- Commons category
- Royal Tunbridge Wells
- category for people born here
- Q18753335
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Royal Tunbridge Wells
- Commons gallery
- Royal Tunbridge Wells
- OS grid reference
- TQ585395
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Royal Tunbridge Wells
- topic's main category
- Category:Royal Tunbridge Wells
- P8168
- Commissaire Moulin
- P12749
- Philipp Kohlschreiber
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Encyclopedic overview
Royal Tunbridge Wells (formerly, until 1909, and still commonly Tunbridge Wells) is a town in Kent, England, 30 miles (50 kilometres) southeast of Central London. It lies close to the border with East Sussex on the northern edge of the High Weald, whose sandstone geology is exemplified by the rock formation High Rocks. The town was a spa in the Restoration and a fashionable resort in the mid-1700s under Beau Nash when the Pantiles, and its chalybeate spring, attracted visitors who wished to take the waters. Though its popularity as a spa town waned with the advent of sea bathing, the town still derives much of its income from tourism. The prefix "Royal" was granted to it in 1909 by King Edward VII; it is one of only three towns in England with the title.
The town had a population of 59,947 in 2016, and is the administrative centre of Tunbridge Wells Borough and in the parliamentary constituency of Tunbridge Wells.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Royal Tunbridge Wells” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.