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I remember visiting London when I was in my early teens and being struck by how many people wore the same rubber-toed trainers. Those trainers were Converse, and despite this being only around 16 years ago, I’d never seen them before. Ever since then I’ve been fascinated by how long it takes certain fashions and trends to make their way 250 miles north to my provincial hometown, admittedly not a bastion of culture, but still, an interesting benchmark.

Harrogate, a historically conservative spa town, isn’t far from Darlington, so when I heard that the town’s Rudding Park Hotel & Spa was offering “CBD experiences”, I was taken aback for two reasons. Firstly, there are only a handful of spas and clinics that offer these treatments in the whole country; those are largely in London, and most of them can be found at Soho Houses (impressive then to find somewhere on this latitude). And secondly, just how pervasive CBD has become if it can be found in such a capacity in this unlikely corner of the country.

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