Bath - Avon

  • Bath - Spa town, famed for it's Georgian architecture and for being a World Heritage Site.
  • Acorns - Stone acorns decorate the parapet of the Circus. There is also a frieze of 528 carvings taken from a 17th century fortune telling book .
  • Uranus -William  Herschel (1738-1822), discovered Uranus, from the house where the Museum is now. . 
  • Pulteney Bridge - Designed by Robert Adam 1769
  • Broad Street- Broad looms with cloth sold by monks.
  • Northumberland Place - 'The Coeur de Lion' Baths smallest pub.
  • The Huntsman- Oldest Shopfront in the city.
  • Abbey Green - Oldest planted tree in the world 1793
  • Roald Dahl- The Landlady
  • R.B.Sheridan--The Rivals
  • Two tunnels Greenway - Longest cycling and walking tunnel in UK
  • Bath Chaps - Salted and smoked cheek and jawbones of pigs
  • Green Street - Where there used to be a bowling green.
  • Sham Castle - Folly built on a hill
  • Flags - Twin towns., Aix-en-Provence in France, Braunschweig in Germany, Kaposvar in Hungary and Alkmaar in the Netherlands.
  • Hot air Balloon - Balloon trips leave from Victoria Park.
  • Cyclist - National cycle route 4.
  • Moon and sun - John Wood the Elder (1704-1754) was the architect of The Circus and his son John Wood the younger (1728-1782) built The Royal Crescent. John Wood made the circus represent the Sun, The crescent the Moon and queens Square the Earth.
  • Grey lady - Ghost in the Garricks Head. This pub was once the home of Beau Nash (1674-1762).Master of ceremonies and fashion leader.
  • Stamp - Bath Postal Museum. The worlds first stamped letter was sent from here on the 2nd May 1840.
  • Biscuit - A Bath Oliver is a dry biscuit or cracker invented by Dr William Oliver of Bath in 1750.
  • Stars - Sarah Siddons , Bill Bailey - Comedian and Strictly come dancing winner , Ken Loach -Film director
  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley moved to Bath in 1816 and wrote most of Frankenstein while she lived here.
  • Victoria Park - Opened by Princess Victoria when she was 11. It has a 'Green Flag Award.'
  • Jane Austin - ( Lived in Bath between 1801-1806.) While here she wrote Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
  • Badger - Brock Street, Old line of Psychic energy.
  • Pigs - Prince Bladud ( Mythical King ?),  was said to have discovered the healing properties of the wells in 900 BC. He became a swineherd after being banished from court and founded Bath. He practiced and taught necromancy, attempted to fly but died after falling and breaking his neck.
  • Canterbury Tales - Chaucer wrote about the wife of Bath, who was a clothmaker here.
  • Compass - Half a Gorgons head ,in The Roman Baths. Also logo for University of Bath.
  • Jollys - 'Old lady of Milsom Street', Europe's oldest department store.
  • Sally Lunns- Type of teacake, first mentioned writen in name in 1772. Bath buns are smaller and sweeter, created for The Great Exhibition.
  • Orange - Orange Grove, named after the 1734 visit of William of Orange., 
  • Runner - Amy Williams, originally a runner and won Gold medal at the 1910 Olympics in ' Skeleton.'
  • Odd costume by fashion Museum- Peter Gabriel, musician who loves costumes. His 'Real World Studios' are not far away in Box.
  • Man with Umbrella- Cover from Album by Tears for Fears, who formed in Bath in 1981.
  • Shorthand - Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of shorthand.
  • Hyacinths in bucket - Patricia Routledge, actress who plays Hyacinth Bucket.
  • Morph - William Harbutt, inventor of plasticine.
  •  Swimmer - Cleveland Pools, Oldest swimming Lido in England.
  • Bard of Bath - Annual competition for the best poet, storyteller or singer in Bath. Marco was made the 1st honourary Bard of Bath
  • Bottle - Bath Ales, started in 1995 in Wincanton in Somerset and now has a pub in Bath..
  • Glass - Bath Aqua Glass, Glass blowing studio.
  • Bath Abbey - Founded in 7th Century rebuilt in 12th and 16th C.
  • Edgar of England crowned at Bath Abbey AD 973
  • Hoard of silver coins found at the Gainsborough Bath Spa Hotel
  • Abbey Church House- Oldest surviving Elizabethan house in Bath 1560's. Remains of 12th C Leper Hospital beneath it.
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