Harrogate, United Kingdom Travel Journals & Blogs

Traveler Summer in Yorkshire, UK 2022
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- Jul 16, 2022, 4:40pm
- ⛅ 75 °F
- Altitude: 410 ft
- England Harrogate 53.990817, -1.54703253°59’27” N 1°32’49” W
Day 54
Harrogate Expands and Develops
July 16, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F
Harrogate still attracts lots of visitors. Many do use the two remaining spas for steam treatments, massages, manicures, etc. The concert hall was formerly named Kursaal, but during WWI that German name was changed to Royal Hall. There is lots of shopping, restaurants, tea shops, gorgeous architecture, and of course the gardens. The Yorkshire Dales National Park is close, for exploring and hiking. One could spend a lot of time here!

Our housesit is only about 1 mile from the town center, easily walkable, except for all the hills! For all this, we are taking care of two loving cats. A pretty good deal!Read more
What a time your having. Sure enjoy traveling along. Like the new cats. [Linda Houk]
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Traveler What a beautiful place! Have you had time for a massage and tea there? Fun! Sherri C
7/21/22Reply
Traveler Ha ha! Too expensive!
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Traveler Summer in Yorkshire, UK 2022
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- Jul 15, 2022, 2:25pm
- ⛅ 66 °F
- Altitude: 436 ft
- England Harrogate 53.991054, -1.53074153°59’28” N 1°31’51” W
Day 53
Harrogate's Healing Waters
July 15, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F
Harrogate is England's famous spa town, with over 100 springs supplying different types of mineral water. The first one was discovered in 1571, when Harrogate was just a small village, and soon visitors started coming to drink the waters.

It was the sulphur well that drew the wealthy and made Harrogate famous especially in the 1800s. Many hotels, some with their own spas, were built for people to stay for weeks while taking the waters. A hospital was built to allow poor people to stay and take the waters.

In 1841 The Old Sulphur Well was topped by an elegant octagonal building, the Royal Pump House, where the water was pumped and served in glasses for a fee. Outside the building was a tap where the poor could help themselves for free.

Valley Gardens has at least 35 wells with different mineral content, making it the highest concentration of varying springs in the world. Both here and in other parts of the city there were other pump houses, and as more and more people came, bigger pump houses were built.

The waters were used to treat many conditions, from scurvy and gout to epilepsy and skin ailments. Recent tests by the EU now prevent the water from being served.Read more
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Scotland
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- Jul 1, 2023
- 🌬 17 °C
- Altitude: 123 m
- England Harrogate 54.000381, -1.52971254°0’1” N 1°31’47” W
Day 7
Highlands Games
July 1, 2023 in England ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
Découverte des célèbres Highlands games : des kilts, des bières, des jeux absurdes mais surtout beaucoup de virilité : lancer de troncs, tirs à la corde, lutte, lancer de marteaux,... Le tout sur un fond de cornemuse. Une belle kermesse made in Scotland concrètement!

On entame la route vers Folkestone pour alléger la journée du dimanche. Arrêt ornitho on the way : rspb geltsdale.

Merci le camping basket, une bonne douche de prise histoire de reprendre la route frais le lendemain.Read more
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- Aug 5, 2018, 9:00am
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Altitude: 125 m
- England Harrogate 53.990615, -1.53911253°59’26” N 1°32’21” W
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Day 5
Harlow Carr
August 5, 2018 in England ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Off to Harlow Carr, a Royal Horticultural Society garden just up the road from Harewood.

Beside being a fantastic garden the place also has a local Bettys. (No apostrophe) Bettys is a local icon based in Harrogate. It was founded by a lost Swiss pastry chef in the 1919. He accidentally got on the train to Yorkshire and the rest is a hundred years of clogging arteries.

It’s a great place with disgraceful pastries and cakes. I will admit that a lot of people appeared to have been taken there by their children as a day out from the Home. Hope Kate didn’t feel like a carer.

All of this before we got inside.

The gardens are very impressive even in 27 degree heat. Every sort of plant you could imagine. Also had a somewhat aged men’s choir serenading the crowd, a giant fly and columns. The great English custom of lets bring a chair and sit about until something happens was much in evidence. What else could you ask.

Charlie bore it all well. (Being pushed around in a pram when she got weary helped a lot).

And this was only the morning.Read more
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Traveler This is awesome!
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Traveler Looking good Bern 💕
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Traveler Nordeuropa
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- Sep 29, 2019, 4:00pm
- 🌧 12 °C
- Altitude: 100 m
- England Harrogate 53.99213, -1.5418153°59’32” N 1°32’31” W
Day 28
Harrogate
September 29, 2019 in England ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
Velo WM in Harrogate
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Angela Pratt Canada
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- Aug 26, 2017, 10:44pm
- 🌙 12 °C
- Altitude: 103 m
- England Harrogate 54.000099, -1.53554°0’0” N 1°32’6” W
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Day 12 - my birthday!
August 26, 2017 in England ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
Lazy morning - opened cards and sat on our veranda! Went for bike ride but it was v hot! Got as far as Bridge Lake.
Planned to swim in afternoon but wind changed and smoke came our way so had drive around.
Dinner at Boondocks - halibut fish and chips!Read more
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Traveler England 2018
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- Feb 25, 2018
- ⛅ 0 °C
- Altitude: 440 ft
- England Harrogate 53.990398, -1.53900453°59’25” N 1°32’20” W
Day 3
RHS Garden Harlow Carr
February 25, 2018 in England ⋅ ⛅ 0 °C
RHS Garden Harlow Carr in early Spring...
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Traveler Highlands and Islands
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- Oct 15, 2017, 5:19pm
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 107 m
- England Harrogate 53.999223, -1.53686453°59’57” N 1°32’13” W
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Getting Ready
October 15, 2017 in England ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
We are getting ready for our Scottish holiday and we hope you will follow us on our journey.
Traveler Beware of the hurricanes approaching!! No seriously, I am looking forward to following your adventure to Skye and back to Harrogate. Make sure you celebrate my birthday on Trafalgar Day the 21st!! Sammy & Eileen wish you both a happy holiday.
10/15/17Reply
Traveler Are you walking any of the West highland way?
10/15/17Reply
Traveler Possibly, we won’t be able to walk very much of it but we would like to walk a bit. It will depend on the weather!
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