Time Line for Woodhall Spa

Prior to 1821 Woodhall was a small village in rural Lincolnshire

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1821	John Parkinson speculated by digging a shaft looking for coal. Shaft encountered a "spring" of "salty" water. When Parkinson became bankrupt the shaft was abandoned. Subsequently water flowing from the abandoned shaft was found to have therapeutic qualities.	The Pump Room and Bath House The Victoria Hotel The Winter Gardens
1830	Thomas Hotchkin erected a Pump Room and a Bath House over the well and built a hotel (later known as the Victoria Hotel)
1855	Railway branch line consdtructed connecting main line to Horncastle via Woodhall Spa
1886	Syndicate formed to develop Woodhall Spa into a prosperous town.
1887	Royal Hydropathic Hotel and Winter Gardens opened.
1897	Nine hole golf course created.	The Golf House The Kinema in the Woods
1920	Victoria Hotel burned down.
1905	Golf course moved to present location and recreated as an 18 hole course.
1922	Kinema in the Woods opened. One of the first cinemas in Britain.
1924	English Golf Union (EGU) founded and based in Woodhall Spa.
1943	Royal Hotel destroyed by a parachute bomb.
1943	Dam Busters' raid.	Memorial to 617 Squadron "The Dam Busters"
1954	Railway closed to passenger traffic.
1971	Railway completely closed, tracks lifted, and Woodhall Spa station demolished.
1983	Shaft of well collapsed and bath house closed.
1995	EGU acquired Woodhall Spa Golf Club. Subsequently it built an additional golf course, established the Academy, and so created the National Golf Centre.