Editing Boston Spa (section)

==Amenities==
	
[[File:Bostonspa.jpg|thumb|left|High Street, Boston Spa in 2008; Crown Hotel on the right]]
Boston Spa has a post office, a small library and a filling station. There are three public houses, (the Admiral Hawke and the Fox and Hounds both owned by [[Samuel Smith Old Brewery]]) and the Crown Hotel on the high street owned by an independent group of investors, a small [[Costcutter]] supermarket in the former Royal Hotel and several independent retailers in the village centre (a butcher, hardware shop and several takeaway restaurants).

The Crown Hotel closed in 2012 and was subject to a public inquiry as to its future use. Arguments presented in 2014 by [[Tesco]] that the premises "had little or no use as a hotel facility" were accepted at appeal.<ref>[http://www.bostonspapc.org.uk/Boston-Spa-Parish-Council/the_crown_hotel_building-7374.aspx "The Crown Hotel Building"], Bostonspapc.org.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2015</ref>

[[File:Entrance to the British Library, Street 5, Thorp Arch Trading Estate (10th July 2020).jpg|thumb|right|The Boston Spa branch of the [[British Library]]]]
The Boston Spa branch of the [[British Library]], the Document Supply Service, is {{convert|1.5|miles|abbr=on}} north-east of the village in the [[Thorp Arch Trading Estate]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wight|first1=Colin|title=Finding the British Library, Boston Spa |url=http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/quickinfo/loc/bsp/index.html |website=bl.uk|access-date=25 January 2016}}</ref> The branch contains the British Library newspaper collection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/news/bna/|title=British Newspaper Archive|last=Wight|first=Colin|website=Bl.uk|access-date=28 February 2017}}</ref>

There are two churches [[St Mary the Virgin Church, Boston Spa|St Mary's Parish Church]]<ref>{{NHLE | num=1299362 | desc=Church of St. Mary the Virgin | access-date= 8 February 2024 }}</ref> and [[Boston Spa Methodist Church]].<ref>{{NHLE | num=1135059 | desc=Spa Lane Methodist Church | access-date= 8 February 2024 }}</ref> 

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