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Tourist
Information...
What
to see...
No.
1 Royal Crescent
Look
inside a Geogian house on the Crescent. The
Bath Preservation Trust have faithfully
restored Number 1 using only the materials
that were available in the 18th century. This
gives all visitors a real sense of 18th
century Crescent life.
The
foundation stone of Number 1 Royal Crescent
was laid in 1767 and the house first leased to
Thomas Brock in 1769. Among subsequent
distinguished occupants were the Duke of York,
second son of George III. Unfortunately by
1968 'Number 1' had fallen into disrepair and
was a lodging house. Major Bernard Cayzer, a
member of the shipping family, acquired the
house and gave it to The Bath Preservation
Trust, who in turn funded its restoration and
run the museum today.
For
more information click here
Roman
Baths
No
visit to Bath would be complete without a
visit to the Roman Baths. Click below to visit
their site, find about the what you can see,
opening times and admission costs. www.romanbaths.co.uk
Bath
Abbey
The
abbey is next to the Pump Rooms and Roman
Baths. It was built in 1499 as the last Tudor
church in Britain before the Reformation.
There has been a church on the site for over a
thousand years, and England's first King was
crowned here.
Beckford
Tower and Museum
The
120 foot neo-classical Tower was built ontop
of Landsdown
for wealthy eccentric William
Beckford in 1827. Today it contains a museum
collection on the first floor illustrating his
life & interests. Visitors can ascend the
newly restored Tower for panoramic views over
Bath & countryside. For
more information click here
Building
of Bath Museum
Using
models, maps, paintings and reconstructions
the museum looks in detail at the various
crafts and personalities that built Bath. The
exhibition leads you through how a Georgian
house was constructed from the ashlar stone to
the decorative plasterwork. You can see how a
Georgian sash window was constructed or try on
a pannier, a wicker backpack used by boys to
carry stone to where it was needed on the
building site. For
more information click here
Holburne
Museum of Art
It
was once the Georgian Sydney Hotel. From her
house opposite Jane Austen watched the comings
and goings of its glittering society. It
displays the treasures of English and
continental silver, porcelain, maiolica, glass
and Renaissance bronzes collected by Sir
William Holburn. The Picture Gallery contains
works by Turner, Guardi, Stubbs and others
plus portraits of Bath society by Thomas
Gainsborough. Click
here for more information of the museum and
pictures of the filming of Mira Nair's new
filming of Vanity Fair
William
Herschel Museum
The
museum is dedicated to the many distinguished
achievements of the Herschels. In 1781, using
a telescope of his own design, William
Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and his
observations helped to double the known size
of the solar system. For
more information click here.
Jane
Austen Centre
The
Jane Austen Centre is a new permanent
exhibition which tells the story of Jane's
Bath experience - the effect that living here
had on her and her writing.
For
more information click here
The
Museum of Costume
The
collection is housed at the Assembly Rooms and
focuses on fashionable dress for men, women
and children from the late 16th
century to the present day. The Museum of
Costume was opened in the Bath Assembly Rooms
in 1963. Click
here for more information
Bath
at Work Museum
The
museum is housed in a grade 2 listed building
near to The Royal Cresent and started
25 years ago with a reconstruction of the
shop, offices,
workshops of a Victorian
engineering business that later added an
aerated water
manufactory.Much of the original
equipment survives, and some can be seen
working. Click
here for more information.
Museum of
Eastern Art
Since opening to the public in April 1993, the
Museum has become one of the most extensive
collections of East Asian art outside London.
With a almost 2,000 objects, ranging in date
from c.5000 BC to the present day, it offers
an insight into the art and cultures of China,
Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia. It also has
one of the most comprehensive jade collections
in the UK and some of the finest bamboo
carvings in Europe.
Click here for more information
Tours
The Mayor's Corps of Honorary
Guides was founded in 1930 by Thomas Sturge
Cotterell to provide free walking tours of
Bath. Each guide gives his or her time
voluntarily to describe the City to residents
and visitors. All accredited guides wear the
distinctive Mayor's Guide badge and work in
partnership with the Local Authority. Tours
depart every day, except Christmas Day and
usually last about two hours, but there is no
obligation to stay for the whole tour. They
cover a distance of about one and a half
miles, beginning in the Medieval City and then
viewing the famous Eighteenth Century City
before returning to the start. No pre-booking
is necessary for individuals or
families.
The tour starts from outside
the Pump Room in the Abbey Churchyard. Look
for the "FREE WALKING TOURS HERE"
board.
Tours leave at the following times throughout
the year:
Sunday - Friday, 10.30am and 2pm
Saturday, 10.30am only
During the summer (May-September)
additional tours leave at 7pm on Tuesday,
Friday and Saturday evenings
Click
here to read more about the Mayor Corps and
Royal Charters
Click
here for more details on tours of the city whether
walking on a bus or on water.
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