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If you go down to the woods today...

As you drive along a long, rough woodland track in Warwickshire, it is a surprise and a half to come upon Wellesbourne Bath House.

It is a little, elegantly neat, neoclassical building in the midst of the trees. Graceful and temple-like, it was created in 1748.

Step through the door and you are surrounded by surprises. Rocks are fashioned into pillars and arches. They seem to drip from the ceiling in abundance, too.

Those rocks are designed, if you please, to show off a handsome yet icy plunge pool.

Your next surprises are the great sweeps

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