Attractions near Bath Postal Museum

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Bath Postal Museum

8 Broad Street Bath BA1 5LJ - England, UK

Georgian Bath was the fountainhead of postal innovation. Ralph Allen came from a humble Cornish home to become Bath’s postmaster at only 19. He reformed the nation’s postal system by criss-crossing the country with a web of new routes. John...

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Attractions near Bath Postal Museum

A selection of attractions close to Bath Postal Museum:

The Slug and Lettuce (< 1 Mile)

This pub is housed in a former Georgian coaching inn, York House, later the Royal York Hotel. Victoria stayed there as a princess. The notice...

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Assembly Rooms (< 1 Mile)

In Jane Austen’s time these were known as the Upper Rooms, since there were other assembly rooms in the city centre. The wide-eyed heroine of...

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Fashion Museum (< 1 Mile)

The Fashion Museum is one of the finest museums in bath and offers visitors the chance to study and observe the way that fashions have...

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Theatre Royal Bath (< 1 Mile)

One of Britain’s oldest and most beautiful theatres, the Georgian Theatre Royal offers year-round, top quality drama, comedy, opera, dance and frequent Sunday concerts, alongside...

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The Museum of East Asian Art (< 1 Mile)

A unique museum housing a fine collection of objects from all over East Asia, ranging in date from around 5000BC to the present day. The...

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Bath Abbey (< 1 Mile)

Behold how it is good and pleasing. This is the exhortation in Latin across the doors of Bath Abbey. Millions come to do just that....

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Bath Abbey Heritage Vaults (< 1 Mile)

Hidden away beneath the abbey, these vaults make up one of the most interesting collections in the city. There are great deals of artefacts...

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Museum of Bath at Work (< 1 Mile)

Bath has long had an image as a city of leisure. So this museum may come as a surprise. Victorian Bath was a hive of...

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William Herschel Museum (< 1 Mile)

A delightful Georgian town house and garden where astronomer Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781. Restored and furnished in the style of the period,...

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Beckford’s Tower & Museum (< 1 Mile)

Beckford’s Tower is a 120ft. neo-classical Italianate tower built in 1827 for William Beckford as a retreat which housed part of his art collection....

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No. 1 Royal Crescent (< 1 Mile)

No. 1 Royal Crescent is a grand townhouse of the late 18th Century with authentic furniture, paintings and carpets. On the ground floor are...

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Holburne Museum of Art (< 1 Mile)

This building makes its presence felt. A vista down the dramatic length of Great Pulteney Street ends in its imposing façade. It was built in...

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Royal Crescent (< 1 Mile)

The grandest of Bath’s many Georgian crescents; the Royal Crescent was built by John Wood the Younger between 1767 and 1774. It consists of thirty...

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The Georgian City Centre (< 1 Mile)

Even quite late in the 18th century, Stall Street was still crammed with shops and lodging houses which hid the spa buildings from passers-by. Sedan...

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