The Tunbridge Wells guide / [John Clifford].

  • Clifford, John
Date:
[1825?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Tunbridge Wells guide / [John Clifford]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Welcome, ye sceues! ye bowery thickets, hail! Delicious is your shelter to the soul! Cool to the frame your healing- Waters feel! Deiig-htful and reviving- is your Air! Restored by you, elated is the heart; Whilst life shoots swift thro1 rMerted limbs ! oCr- ThE general appellation of Tunbridge Wells is given to a large and populous hamlet, lying in the several parishes of Tunbridge, Speldhurst, and Frant, the two former being in the county of Kent, and the latter in that of Sussex: the whole col- lectively occupying a spot at the point of contact, of the ancient forests of South Frith, Water Down, and Bishop’s Down. This singularity of position is to be accounted for,