Things You Never Knew About Harrogate

1. Back in 17th century it had 88 springs and was once two small villages - High Harrogate and Low Harrogate!
2. In 1982 the 27th Eurovision Song Contest was hosted here, England came seventh and Germany won!
3. Charles Dickens visited and claimed "Harrogate is the queerest place with the strangest people in it, leading the oddest lives of dancing, newspaper reading and dining."
4. In 1926 Agatha Christie went missing... she was found in The Old Swan Hotel days later claiming she had amnesia!
5. Bettys tearoom started its story here in 1919!
6. Three times we have been voted the happiest place to live by RightMove