Harrogate Guide.
Welcome to VR Harrogate - your tour of the Town.

The concept is simple - just click on a location and view the sights in 360° 'Virtual Reality'
or start your tour of Harrogate by choosing from the locations below:

Hotels in Harrogate with last minute room booking discounts:

Betty's Cafe - Harrogate			Victoria Shopping Centre 'The Heart of Harrogate Shopping'			The Crown Hotel, Harrogate			Harrogate International Conference Centre.

Harrogate is a town in North Yorkshire, England, with a population of 70,000. It is part of the larger Harrogate administrative district.

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Prior to the discovery of its naturally iron and sulphur rich water, Harrogate was a minor village close to the historic town of Knaresborough. The first mineral spring in Harrogate was discovered by William Slingsby in 1571, who found that water from the Tewitt Well possessed similar properties to that from the springs of the Belgian town of Spa. The medicinal properties of the waters were more widely publicised by one Edmund Deane, whose book, Spadacrene Anglica, or the English Spa Fountain was published in 1626. Following this Harrogate developed considerable fame as a spa town.

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Today the site of the Tewitt Well is marked by a dome within the Stray, an area of open parkland some 200 acres (800,000 m2) in size that runs through the centre of the town. The Harrogate Stray was created in 1778 by an act of Parliament. Other wells can be found in Harrogate's Valley Gardens and the Royal Pump Room museum.
Harrogate was granted status as a borough in the 12th century, and was primarily a centre for agriculture and the woolen industry.

Featured Hotel ln Harrogate - The 'Old Swan'

Old Swan Hotel - Macdonald Hotels, Swan Road, Harrogate, HG1 2SR
Rating: 4*
Number of Rooms: 136
Prestigious hotel in the heart of Harrogate within walking distance of local attractions including the Harrogate International Centre Valley gardens local bars and restaurants. The Old Swan is famed as the hiding place for Agatha Christie during her disappearance in 1926 and was the location of the film 'Agatha' starring Dustin Hoffman and Vanesa Redgrave in 1977. The hotel boasts 136 well appointed contemporary styled bedrooms including singles twins doubles executive upgrades suites Four Poster Suites and Four Poster Rooms all with stylish en suite bathrooms some with frestanding bath for two and free car parking for up to 200 cars....
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During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Harrogate was extremely popular among the English elite and was frequented by nobility from around Europe. Its popularity declined after World War I. During World War II, however, Harrogate's large hotels accommodated government offices that had been evacuated from London. This paved the way for the town's current function as a commercial, conference, and exhibition centre. The town hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1982.

Harrogate was the winner of the 2003 Britain in Bloom in the category of 'Large Town'. From there it went on to win the European Entente Florale competition in 2004. This reprises its win in the first ever Entente Florale competition in 1977.

Harrogate is now a centre of the exhibition and conference trade and has many guest houses, hotels and restaurants catering for the regular influx of visitors. The town also acts, to some extent, as a dormitory town for commuters working in the cities of Leeds and Bradford.

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