Anticipating that people would come to the area to indulge in the newly fashionable pastime of sea-bathing, an activity with perceived health benefits, Tregonwell built a series of Villas on his land between 1816 and 1822, which he hoped to let out.[22][23] The common belief that pine-scented air was good for lung conditions, and in particular Tuberculosis, prompted Tregonwell and Tapps to plant hundreds of Pine.