The Spa development began in Buxton in 1779, when the 5th Duke of Devonshire planned to create a second Bath. The Thermal Baths were built in c 1853 by H Currey. To the right is the Turner Memorial which was erected in 1879 in memory of a local benefactor, Samuel Turner, a local builder and sub-agent for the Devonshire Estate Office and Trustee of the Devonshire Hospital.