Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Bath, United Kingdom

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Number of sights 22 sights
Distance 8 km
Ascend 147 m
Descend 161 m

Experience Bath in United Kingdom in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Individual Sights in Bath

Sight 1: Museum of Bath Architecture

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The Museum of Bath Architecture in Bath, Somerset, England, occupies the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, where it provides exhibits that explain the building of the Georgian era city during the 18th century.

Wikipedia: Museum of Bath Architecture (EN), Website

331 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: The Assembly Rooms

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The Bath Assembly Rooms, designed by John Wood the Younger in 1769, are a set of 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. They are designated as a Grade I listed building.

Wikipedia: Bath Assembly Rooms (EN), Website, Heritage Website

12 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 3: Assembly Rooms and Fashion Museum

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The Fashion Museum was housed in the Assembly Rooms in Bath, Somerset, England.

Wikipedia: Fashion Museum, Bath (EN), Website

788 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 4: Queen Square

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Queen Square is a square of Georgian houses in the city of Bath, England. Queen Square is the first element in "the most important architectural sequence in Bath", which includes the Circus and the Royal Crescent. All of the buildings which make up the square are Grade I listed.

Wikipedia: Queen Square, Bath (EN)

704 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 5: Royal Victoria Park

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Royal Victoria Park is a public park in Bath, England. It was opened in 1830 by the 11-year-old Princess Victoria, seven years before her ascension to the throne, and was the first park to carry her name. It was privately run as part of the Victorian public park movement until 1921, when it was taken over by the Bath Corporation.

Wikipedia: Royal Victoria Park, Bath (EN), Heritage Website

894 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 6: Green Park Station

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Green Park Station William O'Neill / CC BY-SA 3.0

Green Park railway station is a former railway station in Bath, Somerset, England. For most of its life, it was known as Bath Queen Square.

Wikipedia: Bath Green Park railway station (EN), Website, Heritage Website

585 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 7: The Egg

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The Egg

The Egg is a theatre in Bath, built specifically for the use of young people. It was converted from a former cinema and church hall by architects Haworth Tompkins. The Grade II listed Victorian building houses the eponymous 'egg'-shaped auditorium, around which an arts cafe, rooftop rehearsal space and basement technical workshop are arranged. The idea was supported by the children's author Bel Mooney. It opened in October 2005. In 2007, the Peter Hall Company made use of the space in order to stage a production of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

Wikipedia: The Egg, Bath (EN), Website

214 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: The Francis Hotel

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The Francis Hotel

The Francis Hotel is a four star hotel located in a Grade 1 listed building on the south side of Queen Square, Bath, Somerset, England. It was part of Accor's MGallery luxury boutique hotel collection. On 1st April 2022, the Francis Hotel left the Accor chain.

Wikipedia: Francis Hotel, Bath (EN), Heritage Website

451 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Jane Austen Centre

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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, and the effect that visiting and living in the city had on her and her writing.

Wikipedia: Jane Austen Centre (EN), Website

296 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: St. Michael's Without

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St Michael's Church is a Church of England parish church in Bath, Somerset. Completed in 1837 to replace an earlier church, its spire is a landmark in the north of the city centre.

Wikipedia: St Michael's Church, Bath (EN), Website, Heritage Website

367 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: The Pump Rooms

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The Grand Pump Room is a historic building in the Abbey Churchyard, Bath, Somerset, England. It is adjacent to the Roman Baths and is named because of water that is pumped into the room from the baths' hot springs. Visitors can drink the water or have other refreshments while there.

Wikipedia: Grand Pump Room (EN), Website, Heritage Website

136 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: The Roman Baths

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The Roman Baths are well-preserved thermae in the city of Bath, Somerset, England. A temple was constructed on the site between 60 and 70 AD in the first few decades of Roman Britain. Its presence led to the development of the small Roman urban settlement known as Aquae Sulis around the site. The Roman baths—designed for public bathing—were used until the end of Roman rule in Britain in the 5th century AD. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the original Roman baths were in ruins a century later. The area around the natural springs was redeveloped several times during the Early and Late Middle Ages.

Wikipedia: Roman Baths (Bath) (EN), Website

106 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Bath

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BathPedro Szekely from Los Angeles, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0

Bath is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, in England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths. At the 2021 Census, the population was 94,092. Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, 97 miles (156 km) west of London and 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Bristol. The city became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987, and was later added to the transnational World Heritage Site known as the "Great Spa Towns of Europe" in 2021. Bath is also the largest city and settlement in Somerset.

Wikipedia: Bath, Somerset (EN), Heritage Website

114 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Bath Abbey

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The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is a parish church of the Church of England and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries; major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country. The medieval abbey church served as a sometime cathedral of a bishop. After long contention between churchmen in Bath and Wells the seat of the Diocese of Bath and Wells was later consolidated at Wells Cathedral. The Benedictine community was dissolved in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Wikipedia: Bath Abbey (EN), Website, Heritage Website

186 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Guildhall

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Guildhall is an 18th-century municipal building in central Bath, Somerset, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

Wikipedia: Guildhall, Bath (EN), Heritage Website

66 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Victoria Art Gallery

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The Victoria Art Gallery is a public art museum in Bath, Somerset, England. It was opened in 1900 to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. It is a Grade II* listed building and houses over 1,500 objects of art including a collection of oil paintings from British artists dating from 1700 onwards. The ground floor was at one time a public library.

Wikipedia: Victoria Art Gallery (EN), Opening Hours, Heritage Website

111 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: The Empire

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The Empire Hotel in Bath, Somerset, England was built in 1901 and has been designated as a Grade II listed building. It is situated on Orange Grove close to both Bath Abbey and Pulteney Bridge.

Wikipedia: Empire Hotel, Bath (EN), Heritage Website

192 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Pulteney Bridge

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Pulteney Bridge is a bridge over the River Avon in Bath, England. It was completed by 1774, and connected the city with the land of the Pulteney family which the family wished to develop. Designed by Robert Adam in a Palladian style, it is highly unusual in that it has shops built across its full span on both sides. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

Wikipedia: Pulteney Bridge (EN), Heritage Website

303 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 19: Parade Gardens

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The Parade Gardens is a grade II listed park in Bath, Somerset, England. The gardens are situated to the south of the Empire Hotel, Bath and 250 yards to the east of Bath Abbey.

Wikipedia: Parade Gardens (EN)

1545 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 20: Saint Mary's Bathwick

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The Church of St Mary the Virgin is located on Darlington Street in the Bathwick area of Bath, Somerset, England. The church is Anglican and located near Pinch's Sydney Place (1808) and Bath's famed Sydney Pleasure Gardens. The church was constructed by the Pulteney family, who used it to replace the medieval parish church of St Mary's, Bathwick, known even in Georgian times as Bathwick Old Church. The churchyard is now part of Smallcombe Cemetery.

Wikipedia: St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bathwick (EN), Website, Heritage Website

306 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 21: Holburne Museum

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The Holburne Museum is located in Sydney Pleasure Gardens, Bath, Somerset, England. The city's first public art gallery, the Grade I listed building, is home to fine and decorative arts built around the collection of Sir William Holburne. Artists in the collection include Gainsborough, Guardi, Stubbs, Ramsay and Zoffany.

Wikipedia: Holburne Museum (EN), Website

280 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: Sydney Gardens

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Sydney Gardens is a public open space at the end of Great Pulteney Street in Bath, Somerset, England. The gardens are the only remaining eighteenth-century pleasure gardens in the country. They are Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.

Wikipedia: Sydney Gardens (EN), Heritage Website

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