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 used to Tunbridge Wells, where we are all hopelessly behind the times". Tunbridge Wells was later granted a royal charter by King Edward VII in 1909 and renamed "Royal Tunbridge Wells". The BBC radio show "Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh", first broadcast in 1944, is sometimes stated in newspaper reports to have popularised the term "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" for correspondence to newspapers. There were also suggestions that the use of "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" came from one regular contributor of letters to "The Times" in the early 20th century, who would use a particular style of writing to oppose people and organisations who