Tunbridge Family History
Tunbridge Name Meaning
principally from Tonbridge (Kent) but occasionally from other places similarly named such as Two Bridge in Writtle (Essex) home to the 1274 bearer and Tunbridge in Stapleford Abbots (Essex) home to the 1323 bearer. The place-names derive from Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’ + brycg ‘bridge’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016