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Royal Tunbridge Wells
Money; for without Money a Man is no-body at Tunbridge, any more than at any other place; and when any Man finds his pockets low, he has nothing left to think of, but to be gone, for he will have no Diversion in staying there any longer."
Before going further, a few lines may here, as well as in any other place, be devoted to the road. Tunbridge Wells is about thirty-six miles from London; thirty miles, by way of Uckfield and Lewes, from Brighton; and, from that rival spa, Bath, whence for so many years Beau Nash came, one hundred and forty miles. From the metropolis there were two highways, which seem to have been used one as much as the other:—
London
London
Bromley . .10
New Cross
2
Farnborough . 4
Eltham .
2
Sevenoaks . . 9
Chislehurst
3
Tunbridge . . 7
Cray .
6
Tunbridge Wells 6
Wrotham .
7
Mereworth
, 7
36 miles.
Tunbridge .
8
Tunbridge Well:s
3 5
40 miles.
Travelling, even in the middle of the eigh­teenth century, was far from pleasant, even for so short a distance. " The soil is either a
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