Black's Guide to Harrogate and Vicinity: Including Fountains Abbey, Bolton Priory, and Ripon (Classic Reprint) by Adam Black (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from Black's Guide to Harrogate and Vicinity: Including Fountains Abbey, Bolton Priory, and Ripon Like many other fashionable spas, Harrogate is, comparatively speaking, of modem origin. It was almost unkwn till about a century and a half ago, though the oldest of its mineral springs was discovered in 1576. Indeed, it is only about eighty years since Smollett, in Humphrey Clinker, described Harrogate as a wild common, bare and bleak, without tree or shrub, or the least signs of cultivation. Since Smollett's time, however, the appearance of Harrogate has much improved, although to some people, the expanse of grass, unrelieved by trees, which lies spread out in front of High Harrogate, may present rather too much of the bare and unsheltered aspect of a common. Medical accounts of the qualities and virtues of the Harrogate waters appeared as early as the beginning of the seventeenth century; hut it was only slowly that the place came into public tice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.