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The Royal Pump Rooms is a building in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England. It was the most famous of several spa baths opened in Leamington between the late-18th and mid-19th centuries. People would travel from throughout the country, and indeed Europe, to benefit from treatments using the town's healing waters.
The Royal Pump Rooms is a cultural centre on the Parade in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England. It was the most famous of several spa baths opened in Leamington between the late-18th and mid-19th centuries. People would travel from throughout the country, and indeed Europe, to benefit from treatments using the town's healing waters.
Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply Leamington [note 1] (/ ˈ l ɛ m ɪ ŋ t ən / ⓘ), is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England.Originally a small village called Leamington Priors, it grew into a spa town in the 18th century following the popularisation of its water which was reputed to have medicinal qualities. [2]
When 'taking the waters' became less fashionable after the mid-19th century the Pump Rooms became Leamington's only surviving spa facility, later also being extended to include the town's public swimming pool. The building was renovated 1997-99 after floods to form library, museum, art gallery, tourist information centre and café-restaurant.
Leamington was incorporated as a village in 1874, but by 1869, the European-Canadian settlement already had a population of 350. [6] [7] The community was named after Royal Leamington Spa in England, after having originally been called "Gainesville" or "Gainesborough" [8] for local mill owner William Gaines, and before that, Wilkinson Corners. [9]
The name Parade came partly because many of the facilities that made Leamington a notable spa town lined the street. The Royal Pump Rooms were opened in 1814, [3] the Regent Hotel in 1819 [4] and the Jephson Gardens in 1834. [5] Most of the town's fashionable housing was built north of the river, [1] as well as the library and the theatre.
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The A452 starts south of Leamington Spa with two separate spurs running to junctions 13 (southbound) and 14 (northbound) of the M40 motorway. [2] [3] The road leading to J14 was originally part of the A41. These meet and the road heads into Leamington along Europa Way, a road newly created at the same time as the M40 extension in that area.