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Braceborough is a rural village in Lincolnshire.

This quiet rural village can be found between the A15
and the A6121 approximately four miles south of Bourne.
Stamford can be found approximately six miles to the north-east of the village.

The local Church is St. Margaret's.

Braceborough - was once known as - Braceborough Spa.

A very rural and secluded place with natural mineral water springs once visited by Victorian health addicts and hypochondriacs seeking a magic cure for their various illnesses.

A bathing house was built here in 1841, which would make full use of these local springs.

Which are known and records show to have yielded approximately 1½ million gallons of mineral water a day.

This mineral water was to become highly regarded and sought after for its remarkable purity and abundance of gaseous constituents which made it very suitable for drinking and dietetic purposes, others and even members of the medical profession claimed that used externally it would clear numerous affections of the skin and any other morbid state of the body.

The very famous Doctor Willis is known to have treated King George III here with little success for his insanity, which eventually became permanent.

This royal patient is known to have stayed nearby in a wing of Shillingthorpe Hall, which sadly has since been demolished.

This spa was to prosper for many years, but its decline was to come along with other British spas in the early years of the last century as new medicines and drugs such as sulphonamides came onto the market.

An attempt was made to revive the spa and its facilities shortly after the First World War, when its waters were bottled sold, and in some cases given to drink on the premises.

But sadly by 1939 Braceborough Spa - closed.

The once highly sought after mineral water was left to gush from its natural source into the River Glen and finally the sea.

Braceborough once had its own railway station, but today only the station master's house known as Spa Halt is all that survives.

Nearby can also be found

Careby, Little Bytham, Northorpe, Thurlby, Tongue End, Lound, Toft, Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Deeping Fen, Aunby, Obthorpe, Carlby, Wilsthorpe, Baston, Hop Pole, Essendine, Langtoft, Greatford, Market Deeping, Ryhall, Towngate, Barholm, Horsegate, Frognall, Belmesthorpe, Little Casterton, West Deeping, Deeping Gate,
Deeping St James, Crowland, Great Casterton, Tallington, Castle End, Crowland, Northfields, Stamford, Maxey, Northborough, Tinwell, Bainton, Etton, Newborough, Peakirk, Glinton, Castle Bytham,

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