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...

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...

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,...

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

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 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...

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...

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....

Founded in 1824, this institution is one of the oldest and best respected in the city. The ethos behind the movement was to forward...

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...