Royal Tunbridge Wells
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Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England, 30 miles 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
The Pantiles, the historic and tourist centre of the town
The church of King Charles the Martyr
Photochrom of the Pantiles, 1895
An 1860 engraving of The Calverley Hotel, on Decimus Burton's Calverley estate. It still stands today as Hotel du Vin & Bistro.
The Pantiles
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The Pantiles is a Georgian colonnade in the town of Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Formerly known as "The Walks" and the "Parade", it leads from the well that gave the town its name. The area,
Royal Tunbridge Wells
…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…
Chalybeate spring building in the Pantiles
The chalybeate spring itself