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Tunbridge.-- town and par. with ry. sta. (Tunbridge Junction), Kent, on river Medway, 29½ miles SE. of London by rail - par., 15,378 ac., pop. 35,919; town, 1200 ac., pop. 9317; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks, 2 newspapers. Tunbridge is a quiet country town, surrounded by hop gardens; it has the ruins of a castle, a handsome parish church, a richly endowed grammar school (at which Sir Sidney Smith was educated), a new public hall, and a manufactory of Tunbridge ware.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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Feature Description: | "town and parish with railway station" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
Administrative units: | Tonbridge AP/CP Tonbridge CP Kent AncC |
Place: | Tonbridge |
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