Bath Street, Bath
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Bath Street, Bath
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 24 May 2012
A noble piece of Georgian town planning, built as part of the Bath Improvement Act, 1789, and laid out by Thomas Baldwin from 1791. Each side has a continuos Ionic colonnade, wide enough to provide "shelter for sedan chairs carrying patients between baths". Grade I listed. Only the facades of the north side survive, and most of the original shopfronts have also been lost.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.380793
Longitude
-2.360893