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Dorton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (236 words) |
 | Dorton (or Dourton) is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. |
| Dorton Spa, a chalybeate spring, is to the north of the village in Spa Wood, a large pump room and health spa was opened in the mid-nineteenth century; but due to lack of Royal patronage (as in Royal Leamington Spa and Royal Tunbridge Wells) Dorton Spa declined and little exists of it now. |
| Dorton was put on the sporting map in the 1960s and 1970s with the tug-of-war team the Dorton Dons. |
| Dorton Spa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (685 words) |
| Dorton Spa is a Chalybeate spring located between Dorton and Brill in a wood called Spa Wood. |
| A nineteenth century Chemical Dictionary describes the Dorton Spa as the most celebrated Chalybeate and from the account "there is nothing in England to compete with it, which is nearly four times as strongly impregnated with iron as Tunbridge waters and almost as powerful as the famed waters of Toplitz, Germany". |
| The proprietor of the Dorton estate, Mr Ricketts of Dorton House, was anxious to give the public every facility of access to the water and he erected a pump room and baths of an extensive and ornamental manner. |
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