Beckford's Tower and Museum
Gilded-lantern hilltop tower built as a collector's library retreat, now a museum beside a cemetery.
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This guide to Beckford's Tower and Museum in Bath follows William Beckford, the rich novelist and collector who built it, through his appetites, from the kitchens of Fonthill Abbey to the fruit trees and fish ponds of his garden on Lansdown Hill. It also turns to a Bath publican who had his own plans for the place once Beckford was gone. Best heard on the path beside the tower, looking back down toward the city.
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