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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...
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Oct 8, 2022 · In 1744, local man John Shires discovered sulphur springs near the river. For the next century the village was known as Boston Spa or Thorpe Arch Spaw (a village across the river). Years later,...
Boston Spa. Boston Spa is a village and civil parish in the Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England. Situated 3 miles (5 km) south of Wetherby, Boston Spa is on the south bank of the River Wharfe across from Thorp Arch. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 4,006 rising to 4,079 in the 2011 census.
Dec 1, 2002 · There was a steady change over the following decade to supplying copies of articles and this was reflected in another name change in 1985, when Boston Spa became the Document Supply Centre. As the shift to copying gradually increased the conveyor systems were removed and scrapped.
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.
Feb 4, 2024 · 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. [Description(s) edited from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson © 2013]
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.
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