1. It was both a health resort and a winter retreat for the rich and influential of the day. BNCB
2. Eighteenth-century Bristol was an environmental disaster area with problems of atmospheric pollution that would make present-day Mexico City seem like a health resort. BNCB
3. The most famous and important health resort in Britain was undoubtedly Bath, but its late history is still far from certain since the earlier excavations removed most of the evidence in their large-scale clearance. BNCB