Royal Tunbridge Wells small districts, "named after the hills on which they stand, Mount Ephraim, Mount Pleasant and Mount Sion; the other is called the Wells..." The 1680s saw a building boom in the town: carefully planned shops were built beside the long Pantiles promenade (then known as the Walks), and the Mount Sion road, on which lodging house keepers were to build, was laid out in small plots. Tradesmen in the town dealt in the luxury goods demanded by their patrons, which would certainly have included Tunbridge ware, a kind of decoratively inlaid woodwork. "They have made the wells very commodious by
Royal Tunbridge Wells the main reservoir in the area is Bewl Water. The Kent and Sussex Crematorium and Cemetery opened in 1873, known initially as the "Frant Forest Cemetery" due to its location, laid out over by the then town surveyor. Royal Tunbridge Wells also has a library, museum and art gallery in Civic Way. Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Valley of Fear", H. G. Wells' Christina Alberta's Father, Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow", Philip Reeve's "Mortal Engines", E. M. Forster's "A Room with a View", Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest", Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale and Zadie Smith's "White Teeth". The