MINERAL SPRINGS. 539 



are as follows, the Saline springs being marked (S), the Sulphuretted 

 (Su), and the Chalybeate (C) : — 



Northumberland. — Shotley Bridge Spa (C). 



Cumberland. — Gilsland Spa, Shap Wells (Su). 



Durham. — Houghton-le-Spring (S). 



Yorkshire. — The Sulphuretted springs of Low Harrogate and the Chalybeate 

 springs of High Harrogate ; these issue from a deep source along an anticlinal 

 axis of the Carboniferous rocks. ^ Scarborough (S), Croft Spa and Dimsdale 

 near Darlington, Askerne near Doncaster, Lockwood Spa near Huddersfield, 

 Clitheroe (S), Ilkley, Starbeck Spa near Knaresborougli (S), Hovingham 

 Spa near Ripon (S). 



La7tcashire. — Wigan (Su), Tarleton (C). 



Derbyshire. — Wirksvvorth. (See also p. 536.) 



Leicestershire. — Saline waters are obtained from a pit in the Moira coal-field, at a 

 depth of 593 feet, and they are used in baths at Moira and Ashby-de-la-Zouch ;^ 

 there are also mineral springs at Neville Holt and Burton Lazars. 



Nottinghamshire. — O rst on ( S ) . 



Lincolnshire. — Woodhall Spa (Iodine), Stamford (C). 



Rutlandshire. — Tolthorpe Spa (C). 



N'orthamptonshire. — Wittering Spa (C), Kings Cliffe (C), Astrop Spa, east of 

 Kings Sutton. 



Oxfordshire. — Chadlington (Su), Northleigh (C), Shipton-under-Wychwood (C). 



War%uickshire.—\-.f!i\\\\x\^X.ox\. (containing sulphate of soda, chloride of sodium, and 

 chloride of lime) : water obtained from wells 20 to 60 feet deep. 



Shropshire. — Moreton (S). 



Worcestershire. — Malvern, Holywell (S), and St. Ann's well (S) ; Tenbury. 



Gloucestershire. — Cheltenham (chloride of sodium, sulphate of soda), Wickwar (S), 

 Stow-in-the-Wold (C). 



Wiltshire.— Yio\t (S), Road (S), Purton (S). (See also p. 538.) 



Somersetshire. — Glastonbury Tor (C), Queen Camel (Su), Alford Well near Castle 

 Cary (S), Capland Spa near Ashill (C). 



Dorsetshire. — Nottington and Radipole near Weymouth (Su). 



Devonshire. — Victoria Spa, Plymouth.'* 



Lsle of /F/V///.— Sandrock, Niton (C). 



Sussex. — Brighton (C). 



A'fwA— Tunbridge Wells (C), Bromley (C). 



Surrey. — Epsom (sulphate of magnesia), Beulah Spa, Norwood (S). 



Berkshire. — Sunninghill (C). 



Buckinghamshire. — Dorton, near Brill (C). 



iT/Z^Md-jt-x.— Hampstead (C), Cold Bath Fields, London (C). (See p. 534.) 



Hertfordshire.^ — Barnet (C). 



Essex. — Dovercourt (C), Hockley Spa near Rayleigh (C), Tilbury (S). 



Hunti)!gdonshire, — Somersham (C). 



Norfolk. — Thetford, Aylsham, and Hunstanton, etc.^ (C). 



Wales. — Builth, Llanwyrtyd, King Arthur's Well at Caernarvon (C), Vale of 

 Conway (C), Llandrindrod (S), Builth.^ 



There are many healing springs whose virtues are entirely legendary : these are 

 often termed Holywells, while many were dedicated to Saints. Some also are 

 known as ' Wishing Wells,' such at those at Walsingham in Norfolk, but the 

 present meaning of the appellation may be different from the original. Prof. T. 



1 P. Geol. Assoc, vii. 426; Prof. T. E. Thorpe, Phil. Mag. (5), ii. 50; C. F. 

 Strangways, Proc. Geol. and Polyt. Soc. W. Riding, 1883. 

 - Mammatt, Ashby Coal-field, 1834. 

 ■^ R. N. Worth, Trans. Devon Assoc, vii. 230. 

 * See R. A. Pryor, Trans. Watford Nat. Hist. Soc. i. 106. 

 ^ Trans. Norf. Nat. Soc. iii. 318, 525. 

 6 Murchison, Proc. G. S. ii. 89. 



