About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Bathwick Hill, Bath, Bath Street, Bath, Camden Crescent, Bath, Cavendish Crescent, Bath, Cavendish Place, Bath, Cheap Street, Bath, Duke Street, Bath, Gay Street, Bath, Great Pulteney Street, Grosvenor Place, Bath, Henrietta Street, Bath, Johnstone Street, Bath, Kingsmead Square, Bath, Lansdown Crescent, Bath, Laura Place, Bath, Milsom Street, Bath, Nelson Place West, Nile Street, Bath, Norfolk Crescent, Bath, North Parade, Bath, Portland Place, Bath, Queen Square (Bath), Royal Crescent, Sion Hill Place, Bath, Somerset Place (Bath), South Parade, Bath, Stall Street, Bath, St James's Square, Bath, Sydney Place, Bath, The Circus (Bath), The Paragon, Bath, Trim Street, Bath, Upper Borough Walls, Bath, Widcombe Crescent, Bath, Wood Street, Bath. Excerpt: Bathwick Hill in Bath, Somerset, England is a street lined with historic houses, many of which are designated as listed buildings. It climbs south east from the A36 towards the University of Bath on Claverton Down, providing views over the city. Sham Castle, BathTo the north is Sham Castle, a folly built in 1762 by Richard James, master mason for Ralph Allen, "to improve the prospect" from Allen's town house in Bath. It is a screen wall with a central pointed arch flanked by two 3-storey circular turrets, which extend sideways to a 2-storey square tower at each end of the wall. It is illuminated at night. As the hill rises away from the city centre it passes over a tunnel, built in 1840, on the Great Western Railway close to Bath Spa railway station and the Kennet and Avon Canal at Bath Locks via an elliptical arch bridge. Numbers 1 to 23 are on the south side and numbers 35 onwards on the north side. Number 1 is a 2 storey early Victorian villa with a steep Mansard roof. Number 2 is from the early 19th century and has shutters over the windows. Number 3 includes a...
