Crescent Road, Harrogate
The building up the street on the left is the Crown Hotel, which will cost you around £145 pounds per night. But so much history.....
This glorious Victorian exercise of Italian Renaissance in sandstone has a long and distinguished history that reaches back to the early 1600s when visitors first began to drink the waters of the world’s strongest known Sulphur Well.
The name ‘Crown’ may have been adopted around the time of Charles II’s restoration of the monarchy in 1660, when a much smaller inn overlooked the Sulphur Well to the west. Since then, the Crown thrived, reaching ‘gigantic proportions’ by the time Lord Byron and his ‘string of horses, dogs and mistresses’ were guests in 1806.
The Crown is also the most likely place where famed authoress Maria Edgeworth stayed in 1826, when she enjoyed the company of the great scientist Sir Humphrey Davy. At this time, the Crown presented a long row of disparate buildings of Georgian appearance, the main dining room being more or less where the present one is placed.
The Crown was more like a miniature village than a hotel, as it had its own farm where food was produced, workshops, a smithy, a laundry, extensive stables and a team of blacksmiths, carpenters, masons and bakers.
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Crescent Road, Harrogate
The building up the street on the left is the Crown Hotel, which will cost you around £145 pounds per night. But so much history.....
This glorious Victorian exercise of Italian Renaissance in sandstone has a long and distinguished history that reaches back to the early 1600s when visitors first began to drink the waters of the world’s strongest known Sulphur Well.
The name ‘Crown’ may have been adopted around the time of Charles II’s restoration of the monarchy in 1660, when a much smaller inn overlooked the Sulphur Well to the west. Since then, the Crown thrived, reaching ‘gigantic proportions’ by the time Lord Byron and his ‘string of horses, dogs and mistresses’ were guests in 1806.
The Crown is also the most likely place where famed authoress Maria Edgeworth stayed in 1826, when she enjoyed the company of the great scientist Sir Humphrey Davy. At this time, the Crown presented a long row of disparate buildings of Georgian appearance, the main dining room being more or less where the present one is placed.
The Crown was more like a miniature village than a hotel, as it had its own farm where food was produced, workshops, a smithy, a laundry, extensive stables and a team of blacksmiths, carpenters, masons and bakers.
© All rights reserved to KEVIN WALKER. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
❤️💙💛*´¨)☆(¸.•´(¸.•*¨)☆(¸.•´ ♥(¸.• Sincere gratitude, for all those taking the time out of their day to comment and support! I will always reciprocate in return. / Danke / Merci / Gracias / Bedankt / Arigatō / ¸.•*´¨)☆(¸.•´(¸.•*¨)☆(¸.•´ ♥(¸.•❤️💙💛