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Extract from the Harrogate Travel Guides:
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 for hours; from...
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