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1. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk › heritage-and-retroBoston Spa: The story of the rise and fall of a Yorkshire spa ...

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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 · 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...

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Boston_SpaBoston Spa - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. www.emerald.com › insight › content40 years of Boston Spa reminiscences and change

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   Dec 1, 2002 · That being the brief, it seems entirely logical to start and end with a couple of quotations from Westerns. The opening quote is from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I cannot quite go back the full 40 years of the title, having arrived on the Boston Spa scene in August 1964.

5. www.greatbritishlife.co.uk › magazines › yorkshireSomething old and something new in Boston Spa | Great British ...

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   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.

6. www.genuki.org.uk › WRY › BramhamBoston Spa, Yorkshire, England. Further historical information.

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   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.

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   When did Boston Spa get its name?

   • 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 name.

   Boston Spa: The story of the rise and fall of a Yorkshire spa town

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   Where is 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.

   Boston Spa - Wikipedia

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   How old is Boston Spa?

   • 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.

   Something old and something new in Boston Spa

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   What was Boston Spa like in 1870?

   • Click on the map for other historical maps of this place 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.

   History of Boston Spa, in Leeds and West Riding | Map and description

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   Was Boston Spa a heyday?

   • One of these is Boston Spa, a village near Wetherby that rode the spa town boom but today offers little evidence of its heyday. In 1744, a local man cutting willow by the River Wharfe noticed a small stream. After tasting the water, he realised he had made a discovery that could change history; it was a mineral spring.

   Boston Spa: The story of the rise and fall of a Yorkshire spa town

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   Why is Boston Spa so famous?

   • It turns out man has been busy going about his Boston Spa business for several thousand years. That’s mainly thanks to the River Wharfe that runs through it, once a key route from east to west. The prehistoric tools uncovered by the archaeology group were all made of flint carried here by the river from the east coast.

   Something old and something new in Boston Spa

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8. www.visionofbritain.org.uk › place › 11624History of Boston Spa, in Leeds and West Riding | Map and ...

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   Boston Spa West Riding. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. 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.