Gardens · East of England
Hockley Spa Rooms
In or near Sutton.
Hockley Spa Rooms — a garden in england-east, United Kingdom.
John Allan — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Nearest railway station
- Hockley · 0.2 km
- Dog-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
Getting there & planning your visit
Hockley Spa Rooms is located at postcode SS5 4AS and is accessible via Hockley railway station, which is 0.2 km away. Entry is free, and the venue is wheelchair accessible.
About
Hockley Spa Rooms is a garden of interest in england-east, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Crouch and Roach Estuaries SSSI
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
The Spa Pump Room is a Grade II listed, early Victorian building in Hockley, Essex. It was built to the designs of James Lockyer in 1842 after a medicinal spring was discovered on the site four years earlier. Short lived, the building closed as a pump room in the early 1850s and was used for other purposes thereafter, including a Baptist chapel, billiard hall, and a clothing factory; the pump room is now in private ownership.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
Robert Clay and his wife, Letitia, an ageing couple from Cheltenham, retired to Hockley in Essex, in 1838. The Clays, who had been users of Cheltenham's natural waters, rented a cottage in Hockley and dug a water well in its garden. Letitia, a chronic asthmatic, found relief in drinking the water and declared it to be medicinal; they renamed their cottage Hockley Spa Lodge. In order to capitalise on their discovery, and to emulate the kind of success that spas in Bath and Royal Tunbridge Wells had achieved, they sought advice from a local businessman, William Summersall, who later became the manager of the spa, on how to build a pumping room to access larger amounts of water for the wider…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.6022, 0.6579
- County
- Essex
- District
- Rochford
- Parish
- Hockley
- Postcode
- SS5 4AS
- Parliamentary constituency
- Rayleigh and Wickford
- Nearest railway station
- Hockley — 0.2 km
Sources
- wikidata: Q26406591 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Spa Pump Room, Hockley (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Hockley Spa Rooms?
- Hockley Spa Rooms is in Essex, East of England, United Kingdom (postcode SS5 4AS), in the parish of Hockley.
- What is Hockley Spa Rooms?
- Hockley Spa Rooms — a garden in england-east, United Kingdom.
- How do I get to Hockley Spa Rooms?
- The nearest railway station is Hockley, about 0.2 km away. Drivers can use postcode SS5 4AS.
- Is Hockley Spa Rooms a protected site?
- Yes — Hockley Spa Rooms is part of the Crouch and Roach Estuaries SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- How do I get to Hockley Spa Rooms?
- The nearest railway station is Hockley, about 0.2 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode SS5 4AS.