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Construction took 36 months and built over the railway line between Tunbridge Wells and High Brooms stations. [4] [1] [5] Tunbridge Wells Borough Council owns the shopping centre freehold and is obliged to pay 10% of certain refurbishment costs. The rent it receives varies with gross rentals but as of 2019, is a minimum of £882,000 per year.
Map of Kent, UK with Tunbridge Wells highlighted. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160%: Date: 2 August 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Coastline and administrative boundary data from Boundary-Line product. Lake data from Meridian 2 product. Inset derived from England location map.svg by Spischot. Author
The TN postcode area, also known as the Tonbridge postcode area, [2] is a group of 40 postcode districts in England, within 24 post towns.These cover south and west Kent (including Tonbridge, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Ashford, Sevenoaks, Westerham, Cranbrook, Edenbridge, New Romney, Romney Marsh and Tenterden) and northern and eastern East Sussex (including Hastings, Battle, Bexhill-on-Sea ...
The new district was named Tunbridge Wells after the area's largest town, but without the Royal prefix. [7] The district was not initially granted borough status. [ 8 ] The council resolved to petition for it in June 1974 and a borough charter was received on 20 December 1974, allowing the chair of the council to take the title mayor.
Tunbridge Wells is the administrative centre for both Tunbridge Wells Borough and the parliamentary constituency of Tunbridge Wells. The Borough is governed by 48 Councillors, representing 20 wards (eight wards fall within the town of Tunbridge Wells itself). Elections are held for 16 Council seats each year on a rotational basis, with ...
Rusthall is located just under 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Tunbridge Wells town centre, and is separated from the built-up area of Tunbridge Wells by Rusthall Common and the Tunbridge Wells Golf Club. The village is around 30 miles (48 km) south-east of London.
Sandhurst Primary School is in the centre of the village and was founded in 1909. 'Johnson's of Sandhurst', formerly 'Mace' after a supplier change, is the main shop, selling a variety of food and other items as well as housing the post office. There are also a beauty salon, a tea room, a garage and a hardware store.
First record of the land is under the name of Burnthouse or Calverly Manor Farm which appears on a Tunbridge Wells map produced by John Bowra in 1738. After the death of the owner, a Mr Thomas Panuwell, in 1823, the farm was purchased by a land developer called John Ward, who intended to build a 1,000-acre (400 ha) Calverly Estate to rival the lower village of Tunbridge Wells which was centred ...