Leamington's Development Into a Typical Spa Town
A typical spa town is known to be a place where mainly wealthy people
would come to consume the towns spa water as a laxative. After taking
the water the people would take a long stroll along the main street
known as the "parade" or "promenade" or maybe go to the gardens to
find suitable marriage partners.
To be given the proud name of a "spa town" the town would need to have
all these essentials; firstly the most important is the own supply of
water in the form of springs, wells and numerous baths and the pump
rooms. The entertainment facilities would have to include a theatre
and assembly rooms. There would need to be walkways and a main street
along with gardens. There would have to be Georgian/Pilladian/ Regency
architecture on all the main streets. Because spa towns would have
attracted a lot of tourism there would need to be many houses to
accomodate everyone, that would usually be found in circuses,
crescents, sqaures and terraces. There would also be a need for grand
hotels. Churches would also be a main part of a spa town, as people
would be religious, and of course good transport links.
All of this could never happen to a town without the odd determined
people who invested thier lives into making a town a succesfull spa
town.
Before Royal Leamington Spa was transformed into a spa town it was
initially known as Leamington Priors belonging to the Priory in
Kenilworth. It was a tiny village consisting of 300 people and 67
houses until the era of the 1800's. The land, in 1529, got passed
between numerous nobles, landowners and crowns. The spring waters were
first ac...
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the important individuals who gave up most of their time and money to
invest into making this town succeed as a spa resort.
Without the help of Lord Aylesford, William Abotts and Benjamin
Satchwell, Dr Jephson, Dr Hitchman and C.S Smith maybe the place we
live in today might have still been that tiny village over 500 years
ago.
The doctors are mostly to thank because they were the ones that the
population listened to saying that spa water is great to clean the
body of harmful substances.
I also think that if it wasn't for the important and famous people who
visited Leamington may not have been as big as it is today, because
back in the day when spa towns were fashionable people would usually
flock to the places that important people went to see what was there
to make those famous people go.
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