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Tonbridge railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line in England, serving the town of Tonbridge, Kent. It is 29 miles 46 chains (47.6 km) from London Charing Cross via Sevenoaks . Trains calling at the station are operated by Southeastern and Southern .
Tonbridge (/ ˈ t ʌ n b r ɪ dʒ / TUN-brij) [2] (historic spelling Tunbridge) is a market town in Kent, England, [1] on the River Medway, 4 miles (6 km) north of Royal Tunbridge Wells, 12 miles (19 km) south west of Maidstone and 29 miles (47 km) south east of London.
Tonbridge and Malling is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England.The council is based at Kings Hill.The borough also includes the towns of Tonbridge and Snodland along with numerous villages including Aylesford, West Malling and surrounding rural areas.
The TN postcode area, also known as the Tunbridge Wells postcode area, [2] is a group of 40 postcode districts in England, within 24 post towns.These cover south and west Kent (including Royal Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, Ashford, Sevenoaks, Westerham, Cranbrook, Edenbridge, New Romney, Romney Marsh and Tenterden) and northern and eastern East Sussex (including Hastings, Battle, Bexhill-on-Sea ...
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Royal Victoria Place is a British, partially covered shopping centre in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. In 2019, it contained 99 retail units, as well as the Camden Centre, a community facility managed by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council. [3] [2]
An 1896 reconstruction of Tonbridge Castle in the 13th century. Following the Norman Conquest, Richard Fitz Gilbert was granted land in Kent to guard the crossing of the River Medway. He erected a simple Motte-and-bailey castle on the site. To dig the moat and erect the motte 50,000 tonnes of earth were moved.
[36] [37] The line between Sevenoaks and Tonbridge opened to freight in February 1868, and to passengers on 1 May 1868. [21] Sevenoaks Tunnel took five years to build, from 1863 to 1868, It is 3,493 yards (3,194 m) long. On opening, it was the fifth longest railway tunnel in the United Kingdom. [38]