My Top Ten Places to Visit in Bath

The Roman Baths

The Roman Baths

  1. Roman Baths – magnificent Roman Temple and Baths built around the natural hot spring. Great audio guides by Bill Bryson and lovely restaurant The Pump Rooms.
  2. No.1 Royal Crescent – a fine Georgian townhouse where the ‘upstairs and downstairs’ of fashionable 18th Century Bath is authentically created.
  3. Jane Austen Centre – learn about the author’s experience as she wrote Persuasion and Northanger Abbey.
  4. Sally Lunn’s – Bath’s oldest Historic Eating House containing the original kitchen and home of the famous Sally Lunn Bun baked to a 300 year old recipe.
  5. Bath Abbey – imposing Abbey with glorious stained glass windows, columns of honey stone and some of the finest fan-vaulting in the world.
  6. William Herschel Museum – visit the house where William and his sister Caroline lived and see the garden where he discovered the Planet Uranus using his homemade telescope.
  7. Fashion Museum – one of the world’s greatest collections of historical and contemporary dress showcasing fashion from Shakespeare to Dior and Alexander McQueen.
  8. Victoria Art Gallery – impressive collection of painting and sculpture including works by Turner and Walter Sickert.
  9. American Museum – magnificent manor house with stunning views housing the finest collection of Americana outside the US. Galleries on Native Americans, Colonial Times and Folk Art.
  10. Museum of Bath Architecture – unique collection which displays Bath’s transformation from a provincial town into Britain’s most fashionable Georgian Spa.

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