Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide through Great Britain (1801)
In this town is a handsome church, which has a high and elegant octagonal spire and a church-yard planted with lime-trees. Here was formerly an abbey, of which there are no traces. This mainor paid 9l. 5s. a year to Edward the Confessor and 3000 loaves for his dogs; and 2ol. a year to William the Conqueror, and 15l. yearly for bread for his dogs. It is a well-paved and neat town, now most noted for its mineral waters, which are somewhat like those of Scarborough. His present majesty George III resided here some weeks in the auntum of 1788, for the benefit of the waters. At Southam near this place, is a seat of the ancient family Delabere. Half a mile on an eminence is Lord Fauconberg, in which house his majesty resided; near to which is a spring discovered by him, of the same, but stronger, nature as the spa.
Inns: Plough Hotel, George Hotel, Fleece
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