Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire - Pinewoods - card by Jay Em Jay, Alford pmk 1906

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• Picture / Image:  The Pinewoods, Woodhall Spa [Lincolnshire]
• Publisher: Jay Em Jay Series (Harrison Photo, Lincoln)
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  Edward VII half d light green
• Postmark(s): Alford Feb 7 1906 cds
• Sent to:  Miss M. Cooke, West Street, Alford, Lincs.
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Woodhall Spa is a civil parish and village in Lincolnshire, England, on the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Horncastle, 15 miles (24 km) east-south-east of Lincoln and 17 miles (27 km) north-west of Boston. It is noted for its mineral springs, cinema and its Second World War association with the RAF 617 Squadron. The cinema has the last remaining rear screen projector in the country.

Woodhall Spa came about by accident in 1811 after John Parkinson of Old Bolingbroke made several attempts to find coal.^[3] After spending several thousand pounds and sinking a shaft over 1,000 feet deep, the enterprise was abandoned on account of the now rising spring.^[4][5] The spring flows daily through soft spongy rock at a depth of 520 feet.^[6]

About 1834, the then Lord of the Manor, Thomas Hotchkin, ascertained by analysis that the water was in fact valuable, being an iodineand bromine containing mineral spring.^[7] He spent nearly £30,000 sinking a well ,and erecting the Spa Baths and the Victoria Hotel.^[3][8]

The Victoria Hotel burned down on Easter Day, 4 April 1920, when an electrical fault in the boiler room spread to the linen room above.^[9] The Spa Baths finally closed when the well collapsed in 1983.^[10] They currently stand in a dilapidated condition.

Other hotels sprang up due to Woodhall Spa's popularity, including:

The Legacy Woodhall Spa Hotel, which opened in 1882 as the Eagle Lodge Hotel.^[11] It was converted into a nursing home in the 1960s and reopened as a hotel in 1991.^[12]

The Golf Hotel

The Golf Hotel was originally called Clevedon House and has been a school, a club and a hotel of the same name.^[13][14]

The Royal Hydro Hotel, which with the attached Winter Gardens was destroyed in a German air raid during World War II in August 1943, although part of it survived and became the Mall Hotel.^[14][15]

The Petwood Hotel is so called because it was originally built at the turn of the 20th century as a house for Grace, Lady Weigall, who had it constructed in her favourite wood, her "pet wood". Lady Weigall turned her former home into a hotel in 1933.^[14]

The heyday of Woodhall Spa was recorded by a local photographer, John Wield, and many of his photographs are displayed in the Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum, which was his home.^[14][16]

Much of the village's Victorian elegance remains, and since January 1991 much of the centre has been a designated conservation area.^[17]

The building and grounds have a rather interesting history, as they are intrinsically linked to the development of the village from its formative years. The earliest references to this site show that a small hunting lodge was present here in the late 18th century. The inner library room still retains original Jacobean carving over the fireplace and is believed to be the earliest remaining feature from the hunting lodge days.

Woodhall Lodge or Wood Corner, as it was then known, became the property of one Thomas Hotchkin of Rutland, Lord of the Manor of Thimbleby and Woodhall. Hotchkin had inherited many manors throughout Rutland and Lincolnshire but Woodhall Lodge was his particular favourite and where he spent most of his time. Half a mile to the west of the grounds, close to the present Kinema, Thomas Hotchkin had built a spa bath in the late 1830s, having by chance discovered the healing properties of the iodine-rich water in a disused mine shaft on his land. In 1842 White's Directory describes Woodhall Spa as "a modern watering place … with just over 300 souls" and Thomas Hotchkin as living in Woodhall Lodge, "a neat mansion near the spa'.

After his passing, four further generations of the Hotchkin Family lived in Woodhall Lodge. At some point during the last century, it was renamed as the Old Manor or Manor House. During the residence of Thomas Hotchkin's great grandson, Stafford Vere Hotchkin (1876–1953), who helped to redesign the adjacent world-rated golf course which bears his name, there were major additions to the building. Around 1905 the south-west corner and east wings were built, greatly enlarging the footprint of the property, leaving the front entrance wholly Georgian, whilst, to the left and right are the Edwardian additions. The magnificent sweeping staircase, the beautiful hallway and Queens Room fireplaces, and the mahogany panelled entrance to the library all date from this period of high elegance. In 1965, Thomas Hotchkin’s great great grandson, Neil Hotchkin, sold the property to the National Farmers Union and it was converted into offices as the company’s regional headquarters. Around twenty five years later, it was sold to a local businessman, who continued to run it as offices for various Lincolnshire companies.

The building, renamed was renovated by new owners in 2013 and now serves as a wedding and event venue.

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The Pinewoods is a 19 acres (7.7 ha) woodland at the centre of the village, owned by the Woodland Trust.^[40] It is made up of mature oak, Scots pine, beech and birch. Originally scrub land, later becoming part of the grounds of the Victoria Hotel, it attracts visitors, particularly in the spring and autumn.^[40]