 A map of 1800 shows that the area was known as Bewlye Coppice, adjacent to Bewlye Farm

Spa Wood takes its name from Beulah Spa, a popular mineral spa built on the site in 1831.Decimus Burton, architect of London Zoo and the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner, designed the spa gardens, spa house and lodge and grounds, which contained a circus ring, a rosery, an upper and lower lake, a maze, a camera obscura, a telescope powerful enough to see Windsor Castle and an orchestra.The spa was opened by Lady Essex and was visited by Queen Victoria, William I, German Emperor and Charles Dickens.