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Tonbridge

Town on the River Medway in Kent, southeast England, between Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks; population (2001) 31,600. The town is a market centre and industries include printing, tanning, distilling, and the manufacture of bricks. The ruins of the castle, which has Norman origins, include a large 14th-century gatehouse.

The Medway is navigable up to here for pleasure craft. Tonbridge School was founded in 1553 by Andrew Judd, and George Austen, father of the novelist Jane Austen, was a teacher there.



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