Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Plunge Pool at Lydiard Park

Cold bathing was fashionable in the 18c. George III was advised to do it by his doctors. It was said to cure madness, rickets, leprosy and asthma. This plunge pool at Lydiard Park dates from about 1820.


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