Harrogate Turkish Baths
Victorian Turkish baths of 1897, with Islamic-influenced arches, glazed brick and terrazzo floors.
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- Bathing
- Indoor
- Established
- 1897
Harrogate built its Turkish baths in 1897 at the height of the town's spa fame, and they still operate largely as designed: a sequence of hot rooms, a plunge pool and a domed cooling room finished in glazed brick and painted arches.
Balnevia view
Why visit
One of very few complete Victorian Turkish baths still working anywhere in Britain, and remarkably intact.
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Practical information
Sessions are timetabled and often single-sex; book in advance. The baths are heated rather than spring-fed, though Harrogate's sulphur and iron springs made the town's name.
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