Tonbridge Daily Snippet

The main thoroughfare south of the Bridge was originally called 'the road to Rye' and afterwards 'a continuation of the High Street'.

There arose, gradually and unofficially, a practice of referring to the stretch of main road from the Angel to the Bridge as 'Bridge Street, and this name is officially used in the early days of the Local Board.

In a meeting of the Local Board (town council) held in April 1872 it was decided by the sixteen members present that the name revert back to High Street. 

The Tonbridge of Yesterday
Arthur Neve

Tonbridge Daily Snippet

The earliest mentions of a inn on the corner of Avebury Avenue  and High Street were references to a 'messuage' or inn called 'le Aungell'.

In the 19th century a new Angel was built on the opposite side of the road on the corner of Vale Road and The High Street. This well known building was demolished in the 1970's and a supermarket was the first business to appear on the new site. It is now Poundstretchers.