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))