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Chateau Impney - Photo:
Chris Allen
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The Romans called
Droitwich ‘Salinae’ or ‘the place of the salt’
and even today this fascinating Worcestershire
town possesses Britain’s only natural brine
spa complex where a bathing pool has 2.5lbs of
salt per gallon, a proportion equalled only by
the Dead Sea.
Victorian John Corbett, known as the ‘Salt
King’, was responsible for the town’s sudden
transformation into a fashionable spa town.
His old house, Chateau Impney, is a turreted
French castle that is now a hotel.
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