Bath Street
Colonnaded Georgian street of Ionic columns built to shelter walkers between historic hot baths.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bath Street in Bath starts with a line of gossip from Jane Austen's Persuasion, then turns to what Thomas Baldwin's colonnades of seventeen ninety-one were really for. It follows an early guidebook, a Tudor traveller named John Leland, and the old trouble of walking between hot baths under an English sky. Best heard under the columns on a day that looks like rain.
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