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
Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells for Remain during Brexit. In 2009, some residents of Royal Tunbridge Wells called the tag "inappropriate" and "stereotypical", and asked the town to drop association with it in favour of "Delighted of Tunbridge Wells". However, there was opposition to this campaign by other residents, some of whom wrote to newspapers in the "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" style arguing they preferred "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells". Local merchants at the town's information centre pointed out that tourists were buying twice as many goods bearing "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" than with "Delighted of Tunbridge Wells". Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells The phrase Disgusted of