Tonbridge, Kent

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Tonbridge is a town in Kent

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Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Tonbridge within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Tonbridge in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

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.

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Tonbridge, and Tonbridge Wells. See TUNBRIDGE.

Tonbridge in the Domesday Book

A village in Lowy of Tonbridge hundred, in the county of Kent.

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