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Droitwich Spa is a town in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe. The town is situated on massive deposits of salt, and salt has been extracted there since ancient times. In the time of the Romans, it was known as "Salinae", and several Roman roads ran to the town. In the 19th century, Droitwich became famous as a Spa town; unlike other places, the medicinal benefits were not derived from drinking the spa water (which is almost saturated brine); but from the muscular relief derived by swimming and floating in such a dense, concentrated salt solution, at the town's brine baths (first opened in 1830). Opened in the 1930s was Droitwich's lido, a large open-air swimming pool, which used diluted brine from beneath the town. Two canals meet in Droitwich, the Barge canal (James Brindley, 1771) and the Junction canal (1854). The Junction canal linked Droitwich to the Worcester and Birmingham canal.