The Pantiles Parade, with other 17th-century features, is preserved beside the Church of King Charles the Martyr (1684).
Like the pantiles of North Yorkshire or the honey-coloured stone of Bath, they are not there by accident.
The springs, or "wells," lie at one end of the colonnaded promenade known as the Pantiles Parade, which was first paved in 1700.
Head for The Pantiles, the colonnaded walkway where the gentry once promenaded, and the old High Street and Chapel Place, where many of the shops still have original Victorian frontages.
At venues in and around the Pantiles in Tunbridge Wells, it is a great chance to check out loads of new Kent bands and artists.
The attraction, which would have included life-sized animatronic polar bears and elves, a walk-in snow globe, a giant upside-down Christmas tree, shops, a Santa Express train and Christmas lights from Southborough to The Pantiles, was planned for the grounds of the Salomons Estate.
In addition to the pantiles taken from S1, there were Cornish slate roof tiles.
During his convalescence, Bader met his future wife Thelma Edwards, a waitress at a nearby pub called the Pantiles.
In Fanny Burney's 1796 novel Camilla, several characters make an excursion to Tunbridge Wells, and there are many references to The Pantiles and other local sites.
Although "Wells" has a plural form, it refers to the principal source, the chalybeate spring in the Pantiles (where the waters were taken).
