Holiday apartment in Bath And North East Somerset – art, spa history and trails
Accommodation in Bath And North East Somerset
Bath And North East Somerset can be explored through its distinctive cultural and townscapes. In Bath, Georgian public buildings and monumental ensembles combine neoclassical architecture with the city's development as a spa town. There are also Roman baths, diverse art collections, historic rooms and trails that connect culture with the landscape.
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Culture and urban history
The Victoria Art Gallery is Bath's public art museum. Its collection includes paintings, sculptures and decorative art. The gallery on the first floor focuses on 500 years of European art and European artists. The items on display include Georgian drinking glasses, British porcelain, Bohemian glass and a curious collection of ceramic dogs.
No. 1 Royal Crescent is furnished and equipped as it might have been during the period from 1776 to 1796. The rooms feature historic furniture, pictures and objects from the museum collection. There is also a family trail for children. Visitors who cannot enter the Tower can also use an accessible digital binocular tour in the step-free Tower Vault.
The Roman Baths offer one-hour tours through the Great Bath, the East Baths rooms and to the Sacred Spring. Naturally hot water has been emerging from underground at this spring for thousands of years. Bath offers access to mineral water for swimming and health treatments; the original bath at this site was built by the Romans.
Bath's compact, visitor-friendly centre offers numerous places to eat and drink, as well as many independent shops.
The Holburne Museum complements the cultural offering with a collection of more than 10,000 objects. These include portrait miniatures, porcelain, embroidery and portraits.
Nature and trails
The American Museum & Gardens presents American stories, heritage, art and design in historic period-room settings and special exhibitions. Seasonal family trails take place indoors and outdoors. The grounds include wildlife-friendly gardens, parkland and woodland with impressive views over the Cotswold valleys.
The American Museum & Gardens can be reached by car, coach, train, taxi, bicycle, bus and on foot. Free use of the car park is reserved for visitors and members during their visit.
An audio trail along the Kennet-&-Avon Canal runs for one mile between Darlington Wharf to the east of Bath and the River Avon’s confluence with the canal to the west. It can be reached or started from Bath’s bus and railway stations. The Bath Two Tunnels Circuit is a 13-mile circular route for walking and cycling. One of its tunnels is 1,672 metres long and is considered the longest cycling and walking tunnel in the United Kingdom.
The long-distance Limestone Link trail runs through the project area, providing a recreational route and a connection between three large-scale green infrastructure projects.
Places to visit
Saltford Brass Mill is open to visitors from May to October on the second and fourth Saturday of each month, as well as on additional days associated with local and national events. Radstock Museum illustrates the difficult conditions in Somerset's narrow coal seams through an authentic reconstruction of a miner's house, a village shop, a village school and a smithy. There is also the impression of a walk-through coal seam.
More local pages
For further location options, pages are available for Timsbury, Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Keynsham, Bath, Temple Cloud, Farrington Gurney, Pensford, Saltford, Bathampton, Bishop Sutton, Wellow, Chew Magna, Batheaston, Kelston, Farmborough and Ubley.
For the overarching travel overview: South West England.
