Royal Leamington Spa

Royal Leamington Spa (lĕmˈĭngtən) [key], town (1991 pop. 42,953), Warwickshire, central England, on the Leam River, a tributary of the Avon. The town, with its mineral springs, is primarily a health resort largely of 19th-century growth.

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