Bath has long had an image as a city of leisure. So this museum may come as a surprise. Victorian Bath was a hive of...

A unique museum housing a fine collection of objects from all over East Asia, ranging in date from around 5000BC to the present day. The...

The Fashion Museum is one of the finest museums in bath and offers visitors the chance to study and observe the way that fashions have...

In Jane Austen’s time these were known as the Upper Rooms, since there were other assembly rooms in the city centre. The wide-eyed heroine of...

Beckford’s Tower is a 120ft. neo-classical Italianate tower built in 1827 for William Beckford as a retreat which housed part of his art collection....

No. 1 Royal Crescent is a grand townhouse of the late 18th Century with authentic furniture, paintings and carpets. On the ground floor are...

The grandest of Bath’s many Georgian crescents; the Royal Crescent was built by John Wood the Younger between 1767 and 1774. It consists of thirty...

Georgian Bath grew at a phenomenal rate. The fashionable spa needed elegant housing for visitors and residents. The Building of Bath Museum explains its development...

At last, there is somewhere in Bath for all Jane Austen fans. The Jane Austen Centre is a permanent exhibition with knowledgeable guides featuring displays...

This pub is housed in a former Georgian coaching inn, York House, later the Royal York Hotel. Victoria stayed there as a princess. The notice...

The Royal Photographic Society was founded in 1853 with the intention of promoting the art and science of photography. This mandate is one that...

Georgian Bath was the fountainhead of postal innovation. Ralph Allen came from a humble Cornish home to become Bath’s postmaster at only 19. He reformed...

The Church of St. Michael is unique. The site has been a challenge to generations of architects. It is crammed between two streets. There is...

One of Britain’s oldest and most beautiful theatres, the Georgian Theatre Royal offers year-round, top quality drama, comedy, opera, dance and frequent Sunday concerts, alongside...

A delightful Georgian town house and garden where astronomer Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781. Restored and furnished in the style of the period,...

This house is older than it looks. 14 and 15 Westgate Street next door were once one house, given a grand face-lift around 1720. But...

This former station was built in 1868-9 as a stop on the Midland Railway’s Bristol to Birmingham line. The last train ran in 1966. But...

St. John’s has been caring for the city’s needy since the 12th century. Bishop Reginald Fitzjocelyn founded the hospital for the poor of Bath, which...

This gallery has developed a good name over the years and is somewhere that is worth visiting if you are interested in seeing some of...

The Record Office is an institution in the city and provides a massive collection of historical records that relate to the history and the development...

The Pump Room was the pulsing centre of the spa in its Georgian heyday. The glittering social life of the country’s premier resort revolved around...

This is the heart of Bath. The hot springs gave Bath its name and its purpose. Baths were essential to the Roman way of life....

St. Catherine was the patron saint of Bath in the days when it was a clothmaking town. She was seen as a protectress of spinners....

This was the first hospital in Bath with regular medical staff. It was founded around 1608 for poor sick people coming to Bath for the...

Behold how it is good and pleasing. This is the exhortation in Latin across the doors of Bath Abbey. Millions come to do just that....

Hidden away beneath the abbey, these vaults make up one of the most interesting collections in the city. There are great deals of artefacts...

This building makes its presence felt. A vista down the dramatic length of Great Pulteney Street ends in its imposing façade. It was built in...

Here bubbles up one of Bath’s smaller hot springs. By about 1700 the Cross Bath was ’the bathing place of pleasure’. More private than the...

Like the nearby Cross Bath, this is an elegant Georgian miniature. John Wood the younger, architect of the grand Royal Crescent, focused here on a...

Even quite late in the 18th century, Stall Street was still crammed with shops and lodging houses which hid the spa buildings from passers-by. Sedan...

This gabled front conjures up something of pre-Georgian Bath. According to the credible date carved on it, The Saracen’s Head was built in 1713 -...

Heavy goods travelled by carrier in the 18th century. Carriers John and Walter Wiltshire had a wagon-yard here, now converted into a charming collection of...

Bath’s one remaining city gate is not easy to spot, unless you know exactly where to look. Go down Boat Stall Lane from Grand Parade...

Bath in summer is a city of flowers. Time and again it has won the coveted Britain in Bloom trophy. Here the Parks Department shows...

Pulteney Bridge is a rarity. It is one of only four in the world lined by shops on both sides. It was built for William...

When Bath Archaeological Trust had offices in a house at the Circus, the archaeologists investigated its garden. By an extraordinary chance the Georgian garden plan...

Queen Square was the first speculative development by Bath’s famed architect John Wood the elder. The palatial north façade was designed to give grandeur to...

Bath is blessed with bursts of greenery almost round every corner. Georgian developments draped themselves over the green hills and meadows around the old city...

Bath’s sole surviving Elizabethan mansion has a fascinating history. For centuries the Master of St John’s Hospital had a house here. It was rebuilt along...

This cinema was the brain-child of actress Consuelo de Reyes. Having already created a community arts centre nearby, she wanted a small theatre which could...