> I live in Royal Leamington Spa and outside the Pump Rooms is a fountain where there is a constant supply of the medicinal waters that Queen Victoria used to bathe in. Salty! and now generally thought to have no good effect on the body whatever.... I don't know about that, Tom. We have an area here that is known as Mudlavia. In yester-year people came from far away just to take mud baths. Supposedly the farmer that owned this bog was crippled with arthritis, but when he was out working in the boggy areas his arthritis got better. He sold the farm to a group that made mud-baths famous for miles around. The bog is still there, but the hotel and mud rooms have burned down. Rumor has it that the area is jinxed or haunted because it has been destroyed by fire each time it has been rebuilt. A company bought the rights to the spring water, and they bottle it under the name of Cameron Springs Water, but it used to be known as Lithia Water. Local people can still get the water free, you just have to know where to find it. (Under the bridge there is a pipe...) I think that there must be something to the mineral water/springs legends, both in our country and in yours, as they have persisted throughout time. Julia
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