Tonbridge

Tonbridge is the older town that had to change its own spelling so the post would stop going to Tunbridge Wells, and it has carried the faint air of a sibling made to wear a name badge ever since. People buy here when they wanted the grammar schools and the London trains more than a postcode with Royal in front of it, and most of them will admit that after the second glass. The magistrates here fined Britain's first speeding motorist, a man doing eight miles an hour. Rich, for a town whose whole selling point is how quickly you can leave it.