Pembury

Pembury is where people go when they want a Tunbridge Wells postcode without having to live near anyone who writes letters to the editor. The A21 runs close enough to hear from almost every garden, and the village handles that the way it handles most things, by planting a hedge and not mentioning it. The big hospital round the corner is the selling point nobody admits to until their knees start negotiating. It's a village the way a good cardigan is casual: carefully.