Attractions near The Jane Austen Centre

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The Jane Austen Centre

40 Gay Street, Bath, Somerset BA1 2NT - England, UK

At last, there is somewhere in Bath for all Jane Austen fans. The Jane Austen Centre is a permanent exhibition with knowledgeable guides featuring displays of her life and family: Georgian Bath; contemporary maps and unique photographic enlargements; elegant costumes;...

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Attractions near The Jane Austen Centre

A selection of attractions close to The Jane Austen Centre:

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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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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Building of Bath Museum (< 1 Mile)

Georgian Bath grew at a phenomenal rate. The fashionable spa needed elegant housing for visitors and residents. The Building of Bath Museum explains its development...

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Pump Room (< 1 Mile)

The Pump Room was the pulsing centre of the spa in its Georgian heyday. The glittering social life of the country’s premier resort revolved around...

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The Roman Baths (< 1 Mile)

This is the heart of Bath. The hot springs gave Bath its name and its purpose. Baths were essential to the Roman way of life....

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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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Bellott’s Hospital (< 1 Mile)

This was the first hospital in Bath with regular medical staff. It was founded around 1608 for poor sick people coming to Bath for the...

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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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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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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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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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(All distances are direct and may be longer by road)