The Circus - Bath
Ring of Georgian townhouses crowned with stone acorns, laid out to echo Stonehenge.
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This guide to the Circus in Bath starts on the roofline, with a carved stone acorn, and asks why John Wood the Elder put hundreds of them up there in the seventeen fifties. It follows his fascination with Druids and Stonehenge, and an older local legend about a banished prince, his pigs and a hot spring. Best heard standing on the central lawn, looking up at the parapet.
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