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High Brooms, Royal Tunbridge Wells — Area Guide & Where to Stay
High Brooms is a suburb of Royal Tunbridge Wells with its own railway station and train links to London and Hastings.
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Where to stay in High Brooms
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
The reason to consider High Brooms is its station. High Brooms railway station runs trains to London and to Hastings, which makes the suburb a workable base for anyone who wants Royal Tunbridge Wells close without staying in the middle of it. Southborough parish streets, not hotel frontage.
Anyone here for the Parish Church of St Barnabas, St Luke's Church or Liptraps House can walk the suburb and take the train back into Royal Tunbridge Wells for the evening.
Few places to stay in High Brooms — most visitors book in Royal Tunbridge Wells nearby.
About High Brooms
What are the main landmarks in High Brooms?
Churches make up nearly the whole list. St Philip the Evangelist, St Matthew's Church, St Luke's Church, the Church of St John and the Parish Church of St Barnabas all appear on the High Brooms record, with Liptraps House the one entry that is not a place of worship. Five dedications, one house.
None of them is a museum or a gallery, which leaves Royal Tunbridge Wells holding the visitor attractions for this part of Kent.
What is the history of High Brooms?
Neither Southborough nor Royal Tunbridge Wells hands the suburb a founding year. High Brooms reaches the map as a suburb of Royal Tunbridge Wells inside the civil parish of Southborough, its fixed points being High Brooms railway station and the parish boundary rather than a charter or a market grant. Five church dedications sit on its list.
Liptraps House is the only secular name among them, and the wider story belongs to Royal Tunbridge Wells and to Southborough rather than to the suburb itself.
Where is High Brooms?
High Brooms sits inside the civil parish of Southborough, in Kent, England, attached to Royal Tunbridge Wells as one of its suburbs.
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What is the best area to stay in High Brooms?
Royal Tunbridge Wells: the town supply on the same railway line as High Brooms.
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Updated September 2026