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Which eighteenth-century social custom in spa towns involved participants drinking a glass of the local mineral water each morning at the pump room?
Answer: Taking the waters — 'Taking the waters' was the central social ritual of Bath, Buxton, and Royal Tunbridge Wells; visitors promenaded in the pump room, drank the prescribed number of glasses, and socialised.
- A Taking the waters ✓
- B Mud bathing
- C Sea-dipping
- D Cold plunge
'Taking the waters' was the central social ritual of Bath, Buxton, and Royal Tunbridge Wells; visitors promenaded in the pump room, drank the prescribed number of glasses, and socialised.