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Across The River Walk
This walk takes across the river into the Bathwick area. It was originally meant to be a Georgian new town but money became scarce and projects were never completed. However we still have the beautiful Pulteney Bridge, Great Pulteney Street, Sydney and Henrietta Gardens, the home of Jane Austen as well as a visit to the Kennett and Avon Canal, and its series of 6 locks. Its well worth the time to soak up some more Georgian atmosphere.
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Each walk delivers a unique and fascinating user experience. Through Tourist Walks’ self guided tour application you can explore the hidden gems created by local experts. For people wanting to explore the neighbourhood and experience the local culture, we provide a unique experience of exploring the city using GPS guided audio tours. The App is FREE, and all the walk summaries are FREE, each walk is individually priced and you can buy all the walks for a city at a discounted price.
Full Audio Visual Commentary
Tourist Walks is an application that can give you the freedom to explore the famous walks at your own discretion. We have created a full audio-visual self-guided experience that gives you the confidence to explore and discover the stories of various cities on your own.
Visit the Best Tourist Sites & Explore Them
Get a list of all the tourist sites you can visit. The Tourist Walks application will guide you to your next destination because every journey starts with a single step.
GPS and Multilingual Audio and Text Guidance
Even if you don’t understand the local language of the city you are visiting, Don’t worry. Audio guided walks have multilingual text assistance that will guide you in your native language.
Start/Stop/Rewind
/Restart Go at Your Own Pace
Tourist Walks’ audios are narrated by professionals who will keep you entertained while you are walking your way to the next destination. We help you discover the city around you in a more impressive way.
Download the Walk App & Use Offline. No Mobile Data Required.
It is always frustrating when you wish to travel somewhere but your mobile phone service is out-of-order. Don’t worry! Tourist Walks comes with an offline version of built-in maps you might need, even without internet access.
Self-Guided Across The River Walk
- Tour Name - Bath Across the River Walk
- Tour Location - Bath
- No. of Attractions - #12
- Tour Starting Point - Pulteney Bridge
- Tour Ending Point - Laura Place
Attractions of the Across the River Walk
Pulteney Bridge
The original was designed by Robert Adam, and completed in 1774. It is unusual in that it has shops across its full span, on both sides, which makes it one of only four bridges in the world with that design. It is thought the designer was influenced by the Ponte Vecchio, in Florence, and the Rialto Bridge, in Venice. It is now designated as a Grade 1 listed building. The shops on the north side now have cantilevered extensions, but the façade of the south side, shows Robert Adams original design intentions. The bridge is named after Frances Pulteney, the wife of a wealthy Scottish lawyer, and the cousin of William Pulteney, the first Earl of Bath. Find out more on our tour.
The Rising Sun Inn
The Rising Sun Inn opened in 1788. Back then it had a nice view over the river. From here people could, at one time, hire boats to go to the pleasure gardens at Grosvenor. However, this did not last long as the other side of the street was soon developed. The buildings, just beyond the Inn, date from the late nineteenth century, and they replaced a row of eighteenth-century buildings, which were prone to flooding and were once some of the most notorious slums in Bath.
The Old Gaol
This fine looking house was once the city Jail. You will notice that whilst the top three floors are quite impressive, the bottom two floors look like they are unfinished. This is because they were meant to be the basement floors of the building when the street was built up, so they would have been underground, and out of sight. Whilst the outside could be said to be impressive, the inside was cramped, and not very nice for the inmates. Find out more on our tour
Henrietta Park
Henrietta Park is a 7 acre park opened to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. It is known as an oasis of peace, where beautiful bedding displays are arranged around a central pool, and fountain.
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St Marys Churchyard
The church itself was demolished in 1818. The building you can see is the mortuary chapel, built with stones from the church. Find out about the strange grave that reads “The Grave is Full” on our tour.
Pinch's Folly
The little archway is known as Pinch’s Folly. It may have led to some pleasure gardens called Villa Fields. To its right is Rochefort Place. It is only four houses long, but each house is elegant in its own way. The stone teeth on the end shows the intentions of building more houses adjoining these, but it never came to pass.
Jane Austens Apartment
This Georgian home was built in 1794, and was once the home of the famed English novelist Jane Austen, from 1801 to 1805. It can actually be rented by the night, on “Air BNB”. So if you want to live where she lived, now you can. Find out more on this tour or do our special Jane Austen in Bath tour.
Holborne Museum/ Sydney Gardens
This is the “Holburne” Museum, originally a hotel, that became the city’s first public art gallery. It was built around the collection of Sir William “Holburne”, which contained over 4,000 objects. The artists on display include Gainsborough, Guardi, Stubbs, Ramsay and Zoffany. The museum also provides a programme of temporary exhibitions, music performances, creative workshops, family events, talks and lectures. Sydney Gardens are the only remaining eighteenth century “pleasure” gardens in the country. They are Grade 2 listed, in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The gardens were originally laid out between 1790 and 1800, so will have been visited often by Jane Austen. She will have attended many promenades and public breakfasts. The gardens once included a maze, a grotto, a sham castle and an artificial rural scene, with moving figures, powered by a clockwork mechanism. There were generally three evening galas each summer, usually on the birthdays of King George III, and the Prince of Wales. Find out more on our tour.
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The Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet, and Avon Canal is 87 miles long, and goes from Bristol to the River Thames. It fell into disuse when the railways came, but was restored by volunteers in the 20th Century, only fully re-opening in 1990. It is a lovely place to take a stroll. It is also used for canoeing, boating, fishing and cycling.
Cleveland House
The house is Cleveland House, situated on top of a canal tunnel. It used to be the headquarters of the Kennet and Avon Canal. A trap-door in the tunnel roof was used to pass paperwork between clerks above, and bargees below.
Great Pulteney Street
Great Pulteney Street is one of the grandest streets in Bath. It is over 300 metres long, and it is the widest street in Bath. Whilst the houses in the street look very uniform in design, in fact, it is only the facades that are uniform in appearance. The owners who bought the plots of land along this street, built the houses behind them to their own tastes and needs. Some were designed as private houses, others as hotels. William Wilberforce, the famous anti-slavery campaigner, once lived on this street. When it was first built, the street was lined with trees, which in autumn caused some problems with leaf litter. Find out more on our tour.
Laura Place
The fountain you see was not part of the original plan, it was added in the nineteenth century. Originally the residents wanted a column, very much like Nelsons column in Trafalgar Square, until they realised it would be twice as high as their buildings. It was then pulled down and a fountain was built instead. Laura Place was named after Henrietta Laura Pulteney, the daughter of Sir William Pulteney, who commissioned Pulteney Bridge.
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