Great Pulteney Street
The elegant road on the far side of Pulteney bridge is Great Pulteney Street, the equal of any grand boulevard in Europe. If you walk to the end there’s the busy A4 road but also the newly extended Holburne art gallery and its stylish cafe, Sydney Gardens Park and the old Kennet and Avon Canal.

Queen Square
A short walk north from the Abbey through the shopping streets are the best of the honey-coloured squares, crescents and terraces built by Georgians 200 years ago.

Their building boom was designed to cope with floods of aristocratic visitors when Bath suddenly became the country’s most fashionable resort. The impressive houses around Queen Square could stand alone as an individual royal palaces anywhere else in the world. Stroll up to the Circus - a complete circle of Georgian town houses.


Royal Victoria Park
In the grand expanses of Royal Victoria Park it’s worth hunting out the authentic Georgian garden which has gravel instead of grass to protect women’s long dresses from staining. The huge children’s adventure playground at the end of the Park isn’t Roman or Georgian... but it is free.


The Royal Crescent

Next to Victoria Park is the world’s best known block of flats - a grand semi-circle of houses, now mainly apartments. Some are even have council tenants. One house is open as a museum showing what life in the original houses would’ve been like.

Two central houses have been knocked together to form the exclusive and expensive Royal Crescent Hotel.