Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Bath, United Kingdom

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 9 sights
Distance 5.1 km
Ascend 202 m
Descend 57 m

Explore Bath in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Bath

Sight 1: The Mission Theatre

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The Mission Theatre

The Mission Theatre is a theatre in Bath, England.

Wikipedia: Mission Theatre (EN), Website

910 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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)

311 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Saint John the Evangelist RC

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St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church is located on the South Parade in the south-east section of Bath City Centre – the old Ham District where John Wood the Elder, the Georgian architect, had originally planned his gigantic "Forum".

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

1511 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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

1271 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 9: Ralph Allen’s Sham Castle

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Sham Castle is a folly on Claverton Down overlooking the city of Bath, Somerset, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. It is a screen wall with a central pointed arch flanked by two 3-storey circular turrets, which extend sideways to a 2-storey square tower at each end of the wall.

Wikipedia: Sham Castle (EN), Photo

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