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Jul 29, 2019 · It was the golden age of the spa town, and Boston Spa was a genteel retreat for those in delicate health. Around 50 bathers a day were using the spa by 1850, the year the village changed its...
- Grace Newton
The origin of Boston Spa's name is not entirely clear; the name is not attested prior to appearing on printed maps in 1771, when it was labelled Thorp Spaw. At this stage, then, the name Thorp Spaw presumably meant 'the spa associated with Thorp Arch' (the nearest pre-existing settlement).
A Boston Spa branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society was active in the parish in the first half of the twentieth century. Today Boston Spa forms part of the parish of Lower Wharfe, which also includes All Saints Church in Bramham, and St Peter’s Church in Walton.
Feb 4, 2024 · Hot and cold baths are erected immediately adjoining the pump room. The village of Boston was begun in an open field in 1753, and now contains more than 600 inhabitants. The Parochial Chapel was consecrated in Dec. 1814, by his Grace the Archbishop of York.
Oct 8, 2022 · The area was known as Boston and was in the Township of Clifford in the Parish of Bramham. It suggests the name came from bos (meaning ox) and ton (meaning town). Other takes on history say...
Jan 9, 2012 · Many visitors to Boston Spa will wander along the High Street and have a vague feeling that the village dates back a couple of hundred years or so. After all it owes both its name and its fame to the natural springs discovered in the mid-1700s.
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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Boston Spa like this: BOSTON-SPA , a village and a chapelry in Bramham parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Wharfe, ¼ of a mile SW of Thorpe-Arch r. station, and 3½ NW by W of Tadcaster; and has a post office‡ under Tadcaster.
