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The Royal Crescent in Bath, Somerset

Bath The City of Bath is in Somerset, a grand city on the River Avon blessed with beautiful buildings from its great age in the Georgian period when it was the favoured fashionable resort, a status it has not entirely lost. Bath is far older though: in the centre of the city is the Roman Bath built on the gushing hot water springs which are its origin and that of its name. The city was first established as a spa by the Romans as Aquae Sulis. They built baths, which are a centrepiece to the city today, and a temple on the surrounding hills of Bath in the valley of the River Avon around natural hot springs. Bath was a chief city of the realm in the early Middle Ages. Much later, it became popular as a spa town during the Georgian era, which led to a major expansion that left a heritage of exemplary Georgian architecture crafted from Bath Stone. Today it is a World Heritage Site. (Read more)