A Walk through Bath

“The Lantern of the West“

 - Bath Abbey

The site of the Temple of Sulis Minerva

 - the Roman Baths

A Huguenot refugee famous for her buns

 -Sally Lunn

Here you could “taste the waters“

 - the Pump Room

Britain’s first circular street

- The Circus

Here you could “taste the waters“

 - the Pump Room

Britain’s first circular street

- The Circus

The most fashionable shopping street in Bath

- Milsom Street 

The author of “Emma“

- Jane Austen 

Here Captain Wentworth proposed to Anne Elliot

- Gravel Walk

This consists of 30 grand houses, ornamented with 114 Ionic columns

- Royal Crescent

This was the place where you came to dance, listen to music, drink tea, talk and flirt

- the Assembly Rooms

The Roman Baths

The Celts adopted the hot spring as the home of their goddess Sulis. After 65 AD the Romans built a grand spa with bathing facilities. The majestic temple they built was dedicated to the Roman goddess of healing Minerva and the Celtic goddess Sulis.

The settlement around the spa was named Aquae Sulis. The Great Bath was 1.5m deep.

Bathing was extremely popular, it also provided an opportunity for social interaction. Although mixed bathing was not uncommon, later different opening times for men and women were introduced. Aquae Sulis flourished till the fourth century.

The monastery of St Peter was established in the 8th century.

The Normans replaced the old Saxon monastery by a new structure.

After the dissolution of monasteries the three springs

the King‘s Bath, the Cross Bath and the Hot Bath

passed to the civic authorities and the waters became more widely known in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The Queen‘s Bath was added in 1576.

The Pump Room

Bath Abbey

The Roman Baths

Sally Lunn

Sally Lunn‘s House is thought to be the oldest in Bath.

In 1680 the Huguenot refugee came to work at the bakery. Her buns based on her French recipe became soon popular.

Parade Gardens

Pulteney Bridge

Milsom Street

The Circus

Royal Crescent

Royal Crescent No. 1

Gravel Walk

The Upper Rooms

Assembly Rooms opened in 1771.

Wood the Younger designed the rooms for assemblies of up to a thousand guests.

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