The Grand Tour · event 3 of 10

1750s

Sea bathing is prescribed. English doctors begin recommending immersion in cold seawater. Scarborough, Brighton and Weymouth develop as resorts on the strength of a medical fashion, and the seaside holiday is invented as a treatment.

The The Grand Tour era

  1. 1600s
  2. 1719
  3. 1750s
  4. 1786
  5. 1830
  6. 1836
  7. 5 July 1841
  8. 1855
  9. 1869
  10. 1888

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