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Leamington Spa Leasing

Did You Know?

Leamington Spa is a town in central England. Set on the winding River Leam, it’s known for its Regency architecture and broad boulevards. The colonnaded Royal Pump Rooms, a 19th-century bathhouse, now houses the Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum. It includes a local history gallery and an original hammam, or cooling room. Jephson Gardens is a park with formal flowerbeds and a glasshouse for tropical plants

The Elephant Walk is located at Priory Terrace at another side of River Leam. The Elephant Walk was created to make sure that the circus Elephants could be watered.

The building in Leamington Spa resembles the beauty of the early Victorian and Georgian architecture. You can also spot a neo classical building called Lansdowne Crescent, which has been enlisted in Grade II. It was constructed in 1835 until 1838. The designer was William Thomas.

The town was granted its ‘Royal’ status in 1838 by Queen Victoria, who had enjoyed her first ever overnight stay away from home in 1830 while still a princess. Royal patronage of this kind has only ever been handed to three towns – Royal Leamington Spa, Royal Tunbridge Wells and Royal Wootton Bassett.

Randolph Turpin was born in Leamington Spa in Willes Road and became World Middleweight Boxing Champion by beating Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951.

Inside the Jephson Gardens park there is a memorial fountain commemorating seven members of the Free Czechoslovak Army (FCA). This army was based in Leamington Spa during the Second World War after its home country was occupied by the Nazis. Four of the men named on the memorial were even involved in -Operation Anthropoid’ – a successful plot to assassinate Hitler’s friend and confidante, Reinhard Heydrich, who was killed by the Allied forces in Prague.

Best known for inventing the Jet Engine, Frank Whittle learned his engineering skills in his father’s workshop – the Leamington Valve and Piston-Ring Co., which was located on Clinton Street.

In July 1814, ‘The Royal Pump Room and Baths’ was built, the spa treatments that they provided were said to cure or relieve many disorders, such as stiff joints and also ‘the effects of gout and rheumatism and various paralytic conditions’. As a result of the spa resort, Leamington began to attract many wealthy and famous people, who all wanted to experience the magical qualities of the water.

Following the 1951 Festival of Britain, Leamington held festivals of illuminations and concerts in Jephson Gardens. However, after complaints of loud music and voices, they were scrapped in 1961.