List of places of interest in Bath, Somerset
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This is a list of places of interest in Bath, Somerset, England
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Central Bath
  • Assembly Rooms
    Bath Assembly Rooms
    The Bath Assembly Rooms, designed by John Wood the Younger in 1769, are a set of elegant assembly rooms located in the heart of the World Heritage City of Bath in England which are now open to the public as a visitor attraction...

     
    • Fashion Museum
      Fashion Museum, Bath
      The Fashion Museum is housed in the Assembly Rooms in Bath, Somerset, England.The collection was started by Doris Langley Moore, who gave her collection to the city of Bath in 1963. It focuses on fashionable dress for men, women and children from the late 16th century to the present day and has...

       (previously the Museum of Costume)
  • Bath Abbey
    Bath Abbey
    The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bath, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is an Anglican parish church and a former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England...

     
  • Building of Bath Collection 
  • The Circus
    The Circus (Bath)
    The Circus is an example of Georgian architecture in the city of Bath, Somerset, England, begun in 1754 and completed in 1768. The name comes from the Latin 'circus', which means a ring, oval or circle. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building....

  • Great Pulteney Street
    Great Pulteney Street
    Great Pulteney Street is a grand thoroughfare that connects Bathwick on the east of the River Avon with the City of Bath, England via the Robert Adam designed Pulteney Bridge...

  • Grand Pump Room
    Grand Pump Room, Bath
    The Grand Pump Room in the Abbey Church Yard, Bath, Somerset, England is a historic building. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building....

     
  • Guildhall
    Guildhall, Bath
    The Guildhall in Bath, Somerset, England was built between 1775 and 1778 by Thomas Baldwin to designs by Thomas Warr Attwood. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building....

  • Holburne Museum of Art
    Holburne Museum of Art
    The Holburne Museum of Art is in Sydney Pleasure Gardens, Sydney Place, in the Bathwick area of Bath, Somerset, England.-History:...

     
  • Jane Austen Centre
    Jane Austen Centre
    The Jane Austen Centre at 40 Gay Street in Bath, Somerset, England, is a permanent exhibition which tells the story of Jane Austen's Bath experience – the effect that visiting and living in the city had on her and her writing.-Jane Austen Centre History:...

     
  • Museum of Bath at Work
    Museum of Bath at Work
    The Museum of Bath at Work is at Camden Works, Julian Road, in Bath, Somerset, England.This museum was established in 1978 to present the commercial development of Bath over the last 2000 years and includes displays on four floors. The main exhibit is the reconstruction of an engineering and...

     
  • Museum of East Asian Art
    Museum of East Asian Art
    The Museum of East Asian Art or MEAA is in Bennett Street, Bath, Somerset, England.Just a few metres off The Circus in central Bath, the Museum of East Asian Art is situated in a restored Georgian house. The Museum attracts the interest of students, scholars and tourists...

     
  • Bath Postal Museum
    Bath Postal Museum
    The Bath Postal Museum is in Bath, Somerset, England.The museum was founded in 1979 by Audrey and Harold Swindells in the basement of their house. In 1984, it moved to a home in Broad Street. This was the site of Bath's main Post Office from 1822 to 1854 and the building in which the first recorded...

     
  • Pulteney Bridge
    Pulteney Bridge
    Pulteney Bridge is a bridge that crosses the River Avon, in Bath, England. It was completed in 1773 and is designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building....

  • Queen Square
    Queen Square (Bath)
    Queen Square is a square of Georgian houses in the city of Bath, England.Queen Square was the first speculative development by the architect John Wood, the Elder. Wood lived in a house on the square. Numbers 21-27 make up the north side...

    • Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
      Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
      The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution is an educational charity based in Bath, England. It was founded in 1824 and provides a museum, an independent library, exhibition space, meeting rooms and a programme of public lectures, discussion groups and exhibitions related to science, the...

  • Recreation Ground
    Recreation Ground (Bath)
    The Recreation Ground is a large open space in the centre of Bath, England, next to the River Avon, used for recreational purposes by Bath residents and the public generally....

     
  • River Avon
    River Avon, Bristol
    The River Avon is an English river in the south west of the country. To distinguish it from a number of other River Avons in Britain, this river is often also known as the Lower Avon or Bristol Avon...

  • Roman Baths 
  • Royal Crescent
    Royal Crescent
    The Royal Crescent is a residential road of 30 houses laid out in a crescent in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774, it is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom and is a grade I...

  • Sally Lunn's Refreshment House & Museum
    Sally Lunn bun
    A Sally Lunn is a type of yeast bread originating from Bath in the West Country of England, the recipe for which is said to have arrived with a French émigrée in the 17th century. It is often lightly scented with lemon, and is traditionally served sliced horizontally, spread with butter or whipped...

     
  • Theatre Royal
    Theatre Royal, Bath
    The Theatre Royal in Bath, England, is over 200 years old. It is one of the more important theatres in the United Kingdom outside London, with capacity for an audience of around 900....

  • Thermae Bath Spa
    Thermae Bath Spa
    Thermae Bath Spa is a combination of the historic spa and a contemporary building in the city of Bath, England, and re-opened in 2006. Bath and North East Somerset council own the buildings, and, as decreed in a Royal Charter of 1590, are the guardians of the spring waters, which are the only...

  • Victoria Art Gallery
    Victoria Art Gallery
    The Victoria Art Gallery is free public art museum in Bath, Somerset, England.The building was designed in 1897 by John McKean Brydon, and has been designated as a Grade II listed building. The exterior of the building includes a statue of Queen Victoria, by A. C. Lucchesi, and friezes of...

     

Greater Bath
  • Cleveland Bridge
    Cleveland Bridge
    Cleveland Bridge is a grade II* listed building located in the World Heritage Site of Bath, England. It is notable for the unusual lodges that adorn each corner in a style that could be likened to miniature Greek temples.-Location:...

  • Herschel Museum of Astronomy 
  • Kennet and Avon Canal
    Kennet and Avon Canal
    The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of , made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal. The name is commonly used to refer to the entire length of the navigation rather than solely to the central canal section...

  • Lansdown Crescent
  • Royal Victoria Park and Botanical Gardens 


Outskirts of Bath
  • American Museum in Britain 
  • Beckford's Tower
    Beckford's Tower
    Beckford's Tower, originally known as Lansdown Tower, is an architectural folly built in neo-classical style on Lansdown Hill, just outside Bath, Somerset, England....

     
  • Prior Park Landscape Garden
    Prior Park Landscape Garden
    Prior Park Landscape Garden is an 18th-century landscape garden, designed by the poet Alexander Pope and the landscape gardener Capability Brown, and now owned by the National Trust. It is south of Bath, Somerset, England by Ralph Allen Drive, and 3/4 mile from the Kennet and Avon canal path...

     


Near to Bath
  • Battle of Lansdowne
    Battle of Lansdowne
    The English Civil War battle of Lansdowne was fought on 5 July 1643, near Bath, southwest England. Although the Royalists under Lord Hopton forced the Parliamentarians under Sir William Waller to retreat from their hilltop position, they suffered so many casualties themselves and were left so...

     
  • Claverton Pumping Station
    Claverton Pumping Station
    Claverton Pumping Station in the village of Claverton, in the English county of Somerset, pumps water from the River Avon to the Kennet and Avon Canal using power from the flow of the River Avon. It is a grade II listed building....

  • Dundas Aqueduct
    Dundas Aqueduct
    Dundas Aqueduct carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the River Avon and the Wessex Main Line railway from Bath to Westbury, near Limpley Stoke in Wiltshire, England....

  • Dyrham Park
    Dyrham Park
    Dyrham Park is a baroque mansion in an ancient deer park near the village of Dyrham in Gloucestershire, England. For the history of the manor of Dyrham, see main article Dyrham.-Description:...

     
  • St Catherine's Court
    St Catherine's Court
    St Catherine's Court is a grade I listed Tudor manor house in a secluded valley north of Bath, England.The manor of St Catherine belonged to the Prior of Bath in medieval times. It takes its name from the church of St Catherine beside the manor house....

     
  • Solsbury Hill
    Solsbury Hill
    Little Solsbury Hill is a small flat-topped hill and the site of an Iron Age hill fort. It is located above the village of Batheaston in Somerset, England. The hill rises to above the River Avon which is just over to the south. It is within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...

     

See also

  • List of tourist attractions in Somerset
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