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Bath Abbey (16th century, with 19th century restoration). View of the the outside of the nave from the South.
Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths. In 2011, the population was 88,859. Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, 97 miles (156 km) west of London and 11 miles (18 km) south-east of Bristol. The city became a World Heritage Site in 1987.
The city became a spa with the Latin name Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis") c. 60 AD when the Romans built baths and a temple in the valley of the River Avon, although hot springs were known even before then.
Bath Abbey was founded in the 7th century and became a religious centre; the building was rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries. In the 17th century, claims were made for the curative properties of water from the springs, and Bath became popular as a spa town in the Georgian era. Georgian architecture, crafted from Bath stone, includes the Royal Crescent, Circus, Pump Room and Assembly Rooms where Beau Nash presided over the city's social life from 1705 until his death in 1761. Many of the streets and squares were laid out by John Wood, the Elder, and in the 18th century the city became fashionable and the population grew. Jane Austen lived in Bath in the early 19th century. Further building was undertaken in the 19th century and following the Bath Blitz in World War II.
The city has software, publishing and service-oriented industries. Theatres, museums and other cultural and sporting venues have helped make it a major centre for tourism, with more than one million staying visitors and 3.8 million day visitors to the city each year.
There are several museums including the Museum of Bath Architecture, the Victoria Art Gallery, the Museum of East Asian Art, the Herschel Museum of Astronomy and the Holburne Museum. The city has two universities – the University of Bath and Bath Spa University – with Bath College providing further education. Sporting clubs include Bath Rugby and Bath City F.C. while TeamBath is the umbrella name for all of the University of Bath sports teams.
Bath became part of the county of Avon in 1974, and, following Avon's abolition in 1996, has been the principal centre of Bath and North East Somerset.
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Bath [bɑːθ] ist eine Stadt im Westen Englands in der Grafschaft Somerset am Fluss Avon, etwa 20 km von der größeren Stadt Bristol entfernt. Sie ist berühmt für ihre römischen Bäder, die ab dem Jahr 43 n. Chr. von den damals hier lebenden Römern aus warmen Quellen entwickelt wurden. Diese einzigen heißen Quellen in England waren der Überlieferung nach schon in vorrömischer Zeit bekannt. Seit der Zeit Elisabeth I. entwickelte sich Bath immer mehr zum Kurort der wohlhabenden Bevölkerung. Daher gibt es noch viele historische Gebäude, insbesondere aus der georgianischen Epoche, in der Stadt. Der stadtbildprägende Werkstein ist der in der Nachbarschaft abgebaute Bath Stone.
Eines der bekanntesten Bauwerke aus dieser Zeit ist der Royal Crescent. Bath ist von der UNESCO als Weltkulturerbe eingestuft. Im Regierungsbezirk Bath and North East Somerset lebten 2001 knapp 170.000 Menschen, in der Stadt selbst etwa 86.000 Menschen, die sich Bathonians nennen. Mit der Universität Bath und der Universität Bath Spa ist Bath eine Universitätsstadt.
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1F23 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour due to depart Bath Spa at 15.35.
158950 was refurbished with green interior and repainted in GWR green livery around February 2017.
Bath & Body Works
1480 Concord Parkway North, Suite 270, Carolina Mall, Concord, NC
This location opened in October 1997.
Buscando tesoros. Simetría. En pleno corazón de Bath, esta la Abadía, bellísima, imponente y tan llena de detalles e historia! #EscuelaDeJackie #JuegoLVM #Simetria #BathAbbey
Watching the stable guys wash down this lovely horse before her race. The muscle tone on this sweetie was amazing.
Looking to the west window, with the intricate fan vaulting.
A Christian convent opened here in 676 and in the 8th Century the land was given to the monks of St Peter's here. The Normans built a cathedral on the site in 1090 which by the 15th Century, was in ruins. The present abbey was built in 1499 and lasted until the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1539. From 1572-1618 the abbey was repaired and became Bath's parish church. In the 19th Century it was one of many religious buildings restored by Gilbert Scott. In WW2 it suffered bomb damage during one of the Luftwaffe's Baedeker raids on Britain; damage was repaired from 1948-1960.