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This celebrates the town's spa heyday. The original Spa is a town in Belgium: Harrogate's natural spring waters were discovered circa 1571 to have similar composition. Add in a Georgian / Victorian social scene, the invention of railways and leisure travel, and oodles of publicity, and here you are. The mineral-rich springs are variously of "chalybeate" (iron) and of sulphur. Do taste some: it's the sulphur that you're destined to remember.
The Royal Pump Room is a Grade II* listed building in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. Today it houses the town's museum – operated by North Yorkshire Council. It was formerly a spa water pump house. It is located in Crown Place in the western part of Harrogate town centre, opposite the town's Valley Gardens park. It is bounded by two streets, Crescent Road and Royal Parade. Today, the Pump Room consists of both the original 1842 stone rotunda and a glazed annexe which was opened in 1913. The Pump Room offered guests of the town an all weather facility where they could drink sulphur water which was pumped on site from a natural spring known as the Old Sulphur Well. The building also had a social element to it as it provided guests with a place to meet friends and get to know others.
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18th century mansion that Sir John Inglelby couldn't afford, so he scarpered abroad to escape his debts. The family managed to retain it and still live here. Visit by pre-booked guided tour.
A palatial 18th century mansion built by Carr & Adam with extensive grounds by "Capability" Brown and an exotic bird garden.