Shap Wells Hotel - Penrith, Cumbria UK
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martlakes
N 54° 28.801 W 002° 39.110
30U E 522558 N 6036986
Shap Wells was opened in 1833 to serve the growing numbers of visitors coming to take the waters of the spa, located in the hotel's grounds. In the Second World War it had some different guests.
Waymark Code: WM3G9Y
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/02/2008
Views: 53
The Victorians were keen on 'taking the waters' and Shap Wells was opened in 1833 to serve the growing demand for the local spa. A purpose built Bath House was constructed in the hotel's grounds.
Under the ownership of the Earl of Lonsdale the hotel became a fashionable resort visited by many members of the aristocracy, the best known of these being HRH Princess Mary, Aunt of HM the Queen, who came with the Lonsdale Shooting Parties to the hotel in the 1920's and early 30's.
During the second world war Shap Wells was requisitioned as a prisoner of war camp for senior Luftwaffe and German Naval Officers. It must have been a reasonably comfortable existence, and hard to imagine it was made escape proof - presumably, as gentlemen, they had agreed not to abscond.
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