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At this time the Spa was of considerable local repute, as in 
1818 baths were oi)eued for public use. The Avater rises “in a 
verdant mcadoAv, at the east end in the Norfolk part of the town, 
near blew Place,” consequently it issues from alluvial deposits on 
the borders of the river. According to Mr. Accum, the temperature 
of the water was invariably ten degrees below tliat of the atmosphere. 
Ihc Spa House still remains, though the visitors have long ceased 
to come. A second spring, it is said, Avas afterwards di.rcovercd 
in the noighbourliood. 
IMineral Avaters liavo been stated to occur also at Mundesley, 
Hunpay, and Kiniey. With regard to IHundesley, it appears that 
m “September, 1823, a mineral spring Avas discovered here, on 
tlie estate of F. Wlioatloy, Esq. Tlio well wliich has been sunk 
is not more than si.x lumdrod yards from the edge of the clitf, and is 
lifty-si.\ feet deep.”* I can learn nothing further concerning this 
particular “spa” at Mundesley; but along tlie cliffs behveen 
Ilappisburgh and Weybourn there are numerous springs, some of 
wliicli are conspicuously charged Avith iron-ore. f 
^ About a mile east ot Hortli Walsliam is a place called “ Spa 
C ommon,” Avliich is suggestive of a mineral spring, but I have 
not boon able to obtain any information about it. 
Kiflley (or Refiloy) Spring is situated about two miles north-east 
of Lynn, and has been described in a Avork by J. Grisenthwaite, 
published at Lynn in 1804; a Avork, howev'er, I have not been 
able to find at Lynn, Norwich, or in tlie British Museum, London. 
This is mentioned by Blomefield as a chalybeate spring. Another, 
and probably a similar spring, is situated about a mile and a half 
east of Lynn, at Gay wood. 
j\Ir. Whitaker writes me word that the Biflley spring is still 
running, and .seems to bo the result of the drainage of a small 
•Chambers, ‘ General History of the County of Norfolk,’ vol. ii. p. 1333. 
t In the aiscnssion which followed the reading of this paper, Mr. 
^ M t*'® nearest approach to medicinal waters occurring 
m Norfolk, was to be found in the Glacial beds near Cromer and xMundeslev 
and lie had detected in siiecimcns of sncli waters, notable quantities of iron 
soda, potash, &c., but, still, not enough to render them really medicinal! 
Smuc Avaters also m Norfolk contained sulphur in very small proiX)rtions._ 
Norfolk Chronicle, November 5th, ISSl. 
