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About 27 miles away
The great prehistoric stone circle on Salisbury Plain, with the far larger Avebury ring nearby.
1 Sight
Royal Crescent
A sweeping arc of 30 Georgian houses facing a park, with a museum showing life inside one of them in the 1770s.
- Open
- Always; the museum keeps its own hours
- Price
- Free; paid for No. 1 Royal Crescent
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Royal Crescent, Bath BA1 2LRDirections
- Getting There
- A 15-minute walk uphill from the Abbey, past the Circus.
Why Go
John Wood the Younger built the crescent in 1767–1774, a single palatial façade with 114 columns, behind which each owner built their own house. No. 1 Royal Crescent is furnished as it was in Georgian times, from the drawing room to the kitchen.
Nearby in Bath
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