...to want to be able to visit a proper sauna without having to go to London?

[LauraRoslin]

I mean, I live in the second largest county in England. Surely there's scope for one somewhere around here?

Don't your council leisure/sports centres have some? I just googled sauna and found several available, including in the local posh hotel.

And is one of the poorest in the country.

Those sorts of saunas usually have a rule enforcing the wearing of swimsuits, though, which destroys a lot of the point.

You will have to go to Finland.

Have you tried hammam or turkish baths on google instead?

Ah, OK. Right, this may get expensive then, but what about self-catering holiday places? Some of them have private saunas and you could get as nekkid as you like.

(Are Londoners less shy, then?)

It's not that Londoners are less shy so much that there exist sufficiently many non-shy people in London. Maybe there don't in my county.

Look at it as a business opportunity?

Clover Spa and Hotel

Yeuk, sweaty buttocks.

If you contact the local nudist society I bet they will know of one