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
The Skinners' Kent Academy Catholic School selects its pupil intake mainly from nearby Catholic feeder primary schools. The Skinners' Kent Academy The Skinners' Kent Academy (formerly Tunbridge Wells High School) is a secondary school with academy status in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, educating children mainly from the town centre. Tunbridge Wells High School became The Skinners' Kent Academy in September 2009, when the school became an academy, and independent of local authority control. In the five years before becoming an academy, the school was consistently ranked in the top 5% nationally for adding value and was the top secondary school in West Kent based on