Harrogate, United Kingdom Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

HARROGATE – the very picture of genteel Yorkshire respectability – owes its airy, planned appearance and early prosperity to the discovery of Tewit Well in 1571. This was the first of over eighty ferrous and sulphurous springs that, by the nineteenth century, were to turn the town into one of the country's leading spas. Monuments to its past splendours still stand dotted around town, with Harrogate's spa heritage beginning at the Royal Baths Assembly Rooms on Crescent Road, built in 1897, where you can still take a Turkish bath in the plush, tiled Victorian surroundings (call 01423/556746 … more »