Much More Than Waters to Sample ; Andrew Hebden Travels to Kent to Visit a Spa Town Synonymous with Middle England.
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AQUIET air of contentment probably always surrounds the historic spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells. Despite being just a 40-minute train journey from central London, its pretty streets, where independent traders sit cheek by jowl as if the brutish force of the supermarkets had never impacted upon the place, feel a million miles away from the hustle and bustle of the capital.
It seems especially fitting to be here just a few weeks after a Conservative Prime Minister was installed in Downing Street, for the first time in 13 years.See the full content of this document
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Much More Than Waters to Sample ; Andrew Hebden Travels to Kent to Visit a Spa Town Synonymous with Middle England.
It's an outcome that would surely be welcomed by the vast majority of the town's residents in this icon of middle England, a status celebrated by author Stuart Maconie in his richly entertaining book, Sailing on the High Teas. In it, Wigan-born Maconie criss-crosses the Home Counties in search of the real middle England, an...
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