Spas [ Health ]
… as Vaugh Scribner explains, though the phenomenon was not as widespread as it was in Britain. 2 In England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, more than 300 spas were recorded throughout the century – yet ‘spa’ was an umbrella term in the … were sometimes designed to enable access to a well, such as Tuewhet wells in Harrogate or the sulphurous well in Moffat (Scotland), in a proto-touristic consumption of the environment, an early form of the ‘commodification of nature’. 7 At …
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