Parade Gardens
Bath’s lovely parks offer several places to get some peace and quiet and to stroll round. Parade Gardens, in front of the Abbey and the Empire.
Bath: Quick Tour
Riverside Walk
Walk south a few hundred metres along the east side of the River Avon from Pulteney Bridge for wonderful views of the Abbey (to the left of this picture) the Empire building (residential flats)...
Bath Guildhall Market
The Guild Hall is an indoor market wander around and you will find some interesting stalls. The market is housed in a beautiful building. The market has been established since 1284. For fresh produce...
Sally Lunn’s Refreshment House and Museum
The oldest house in Bath, c.1482. Excavations in the Cellar Museum show remains of Roman Saxon and Medieval buildings. Opening Hours: Every day except Christmas. Museum and refreshment rooms open 10.00 am (Sun 12.00...
Bath Art Galleries – Victoria Art Gallery
Bath’s largest Art Gallery with two spacious contemporary galleries situated on the ground floor with regular exhibitions and a sumptuous Victorian Upper Gallery with a permanent display of paintings.
The Holburne Museum
“With its beautiful cafe and new shop, a new library and exciting interactive displays the renewed Holburne will offer a rich and rewarding range of delights. Reopened in 2011 as a confident and adventurous...
Theatre Royal
Right in the heart of Bath is one of Britain’s oldest theatres, and probably its most beautiful: the Theatre Royal. Before 1805 the theatre was in Orchard Street (Sarah Siddons played there from 1778;...
Pulteney Bridge
Pulteney Bridge, with its sweeping horseshoe-shaped weir, is one of Bath’s most famous images. The bridge, which incorporates shops, was built by Robert Adam in 1769. The estimated cost of the bridge was £1,...
Roman Baths
The amazingly complete remains of The Roman baths and the Victorian restoration are still fed by water from one of Bath’s three hot springs. Rain 10,000 years ago seeped into the hills, was heated...
Great Pulteney Street – who came here (a while back !!) …
Why not take a look at our comprehensive They Came to Bath section – They Came to Bath contains lots of interesting detail on each of the below, plus information on many more who...
Royal Crescent
Designed by John Wood the Younger as lodging-houses for the gentry on their visits to Bath, this crescent was completed in 1767. It was in the middle of farmland then and had wonderful sweeping...
Circus
Two minutes’ walk from the Royal Crescent is The Circus, another jewel in Bath’s crown. It consists of 30 houses in groups of 8, 12 and 10, and is now a prestige collection of...
