Royal Tunbridge Wells Royal Tunbridge Wells Royal Tunbridge Wells, previously just Tunbridge Wells, is a town in western Kent, England, south-east of central London, close to the border with East Sussex upon the northern edge of the High Weald, whose sandstone geology is exemplified by the rock formations at the Wellington Rocks and High Rocks. The town came into being as a spa in the Restoration and enjoyed its heyday as a fashionable resort in the mid-1700s under Beau Nash when the Pantiles, and its chalybeate spring, attracted significant numbers of visitors who wished to take the waters. Though its popularity as a
Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club Tunbridge Wells Cricket Week, helped by a series of fund-raising concerts at Royal Tunbridge Wells' Opera House. In 1970 Tunbridge Wells CC were one of the founder members of the Kent Cricket League. Tunbridge Wells CC hosted a 1983 Cricket World Cup match between India and Zimbabwe where India's Kapil Dev scored 175 not out. They have won the Kent Cricket League three times, most recently in 1988. In 2004 Tunbridge Wells CC were granted by the England and Wales Cricket Board the ECB Clubmark. In 2016 Tunbridge Wells made it to the semi-final of the ECB National Club Twenty20.