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Albert Dock

Visit the heart of the World Heritage Site. Around Britain's only hot spring , the Romans built a magnificent temple and bathing complex that still flows with natural hot water. Water rises here at the rate of over a million liters a day and at a temperature of 46C. The Spring rises within the courtyard of the Temple of Sulis Minerva and water from it feeds the Roman baths. See the water's source and walk where Romans walked on the ancient stone pavements. The extensive ruins and treasures from the spring are beautifully preserved and presented using the best of modern interpretation.

The Royal Crescent

The Royal Crescent is a notable residential road of 30 houses, laid out in a crescent, in the city of Bath, England. It was designed by the architect John Wood the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774. It is amongst the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom and is a grade I listed building.

Together with his father John Wood, the Elder, John Wood the Younger was interested in occult and masonic symbolism; perhaps their creation of largest scale was their joint design of the Royal Crescent and the nearby Circus (originally called "the King's Circus"), which from the air can be observed to be a giant circle and crescent, symbolizing the soleil-lune, the sun and moon.

The houses in the Crescent are a mixture of tenures - most are privately owned but a substantial minority of the property is owned by a housing association. Many of the houses in the Crescent have been split into flats.
Number 1 Royal Crescent is a museum, maintained by the Bath Preservation Trust, which illustrates how wealthy owners of the period might have furnished such a house.

The Royal Crescent Hotel occupies the central properties of the Crescent, numbers 15 and 16. The area of Royal Victoria Park near the Crescent is a popular location for the launch of hot air balloons.
Launches take place in summer, typically early morning or late evening. The road is one of the best known landmarks of Georgian Bath and for many years residents had to put up with tour buses passing their houses every few minutes during the summer. In recent years, however, the road has been closed to coaches and buses.

Bath Abbey

The Abbey Church is classified as one of the Greater Churches group. Begun in 1499, it is the last great gothic church in England. It is a cruciform building the size of a small cathedral, seating around 1,200 people. As Saint James' Church was destroyed during the Second World War, the Abbey is the only licensed place of worship in the parish.

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	Attractions Near Windermere
	Stanton Drew Stone Circle The ancient standing stones of Stanton Drew Farleigh Hungerford Castle Began construction in the 1370s, under Sir Thomas Hungerford Stonehenge Take a day trip to probably the most important prehistoric monument in the whole of Britain. Find accommodation near these attraction here.