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Tunbridge Wells is traditionally associated with the prim middle classes, especially in the locution "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells".
Tunbridge Wells is often assumed to be a bastion of the middle classes and comfortably bourgeois.
However, it also has areas of deprivation that suffer from a range of social problems, although according to the Indices of Deprivation 2004 no area is within the 20% most deprived in the areas within England and the Local Authority as a whole is within the 20% least deprived, (the recognised measure of deprivation).
Wells was made the seat of a bishopric about 909 (Bath and Wells from 1244) and has a 13th-century bishop's palace.
The bishop's palace, the residence of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, is moated and surrounded by a defensive wall.
As coal is said to abound in all that region, and wells are generally successful, the enterprise of the emigrants is gradually prevailing against these difficulties.
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