Buxton Crescent Health Spa review: ‘An experience worthy of its grand past’

Buxton Crescent Health Spa Hotel (Image: Provided)

I’ve never been much of a spa person. The idea of lying still while someone kneads at me like a lump of dough always feels counterproductive – my mind races, my muscles resist. But as I sink into my treatment at the Buxton Crescent Health Spa, something shifts. Maybe it’s the grandeur of this magnificent Georgian crescent, or maybe it’s the Buxton mineral waters, flowing through the spa’s pools as they have for centuries. Either way, I feel something I rarely do: I start to relax.

Tucked in the heart of Buxton, the historic Peak District town close to Manchester best known for its bottled spring water, this 18th-century spa retreat feels like a portal to another era. Once a playground for the

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