Leamington Spa is an attractive town which grew up rapidly as a new town in the early to mid nineteenth century. This method of town development is unusual in England, where most towns have grown organically over a much longer period of time. This has lead to features characteristic of modern planned towns including wide streets based predominantly on a north/south aligned grid. It was built on the site of a much smaller and older village called Leamington Priors, from which 2 buildings still remain - situated just East of the parish church. http://wikitravel.org/en/Leamington Spa