Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells
The Pantiles, the historic and tourist centre of the town
The coat of arms until 1972
Royal Tunbridge Wells Location within Kent
Population	59,947 (2016)[1]
OS grid reference	TQ585395
• London	33 mi (53 km) NNW
District	Tunbridge Wells
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TUNBRIDGE WELLS
Postcode district	TN1-TN4
Dialling code	01892
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Tunbridge Wells
List of places UK England Kent 51°07′55″N 0°15′47″E / 51.132°N 0.263°E / 51.132; 0.263

Royal Tunbridge Wells (formerly, until 1909, and still commonly Tunbridge Wells) is a town in Kent, England, 30 miles (50 kilometres) 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 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.^[2] Though its popularity as a spa town waned with the advent of sea bathing, the town still derives much of its income from tourism.^[3] The prefix "Royal" was granted to it in 1909 by King Edward VII; it is one of only three towns in England with the title.

The town had a population of 59,947 in 2016, and is the administrative centre of Tunbridge Wells Borough and in the parliamentary constituency of Tunbridge Wells.