University of Bath, Bath

Name: University of Bath
Address: Bath, United Kingdom

#125 among attractions in Bath

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The University of Bath is a public research university located in Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1966, along with a number of other institutions following the Robbins Report. Like the University of Bristol and University of the West of England, Bath can trace its roots to the Merchant Venturers' Technical College, established in Bristol as a school in 1595 by the Society of Merchant Venturers. The university's main campus is located on Claverton Down, a site overlooking the city of Bath, and was purpose-built, constructed from 1964 in the modernist style of the time. ()

Alternative names: Established: 1886 (138 years ago)Coordinates: 51°22'40"N, 2°19'31"W

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University of Bath – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Sydney Gardens Tunnels, Sydney Gardens, Holburne Museum, Dundas Aqueduct.

1.1 miNW
Canal
Sydney Gardens Tunnels, Bath
29 min walk • The Sydney Gardens Tunnels are two canal tunnels on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Bath, UK. The No. 1 Tunnel brings the canal into Sydney Gardens from the south and the No. 2 Tunnel exits the gardens to the north.
1.2 miNW
Park
Sydney Gardens, Bath
31 min walk • Sydney Gardens is a public open space at the end of Great Pulteney Street in Bath, Somerset, England. The gardens are the only remaining eighteenth-century pleasure gardens in the country.
1.2 miNW
Museum, Art museum
Holburne Museum, Bath
32 min walk • The Holburne Museum is located in Sydney Pleasure Gardens, Bath, Somerset, England. The city's first public art gallery, the Grade I listed building, is home to fine and decorative arts built around the collection of Sir William Holburne. Artists in the collection include Gainsborough, Guardi, Stubbs, Ramsay and Zoffany.
1.3 miSE
Outdoor activities, Canal
Dundas Aqueduct, Bath
33 min walk • Dundas Aqueduct carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the River Avon and the Wessex Main Line railway from Bath to Westbury. The aqueduct is near Monkton Combe, Somerset, and is about 2+1⁄2 miles southeast of the city of Bath.
1.1 miSW
18th-century park with Palladian bridges
Prior Park, Bath
28 min walk • Prior Park Landscape Garden surrounding the Prior Park estate south of Bath, Somerset, England, was designed in the 18th century by the poet Alexander Pope and the landscape gardener Capability Brown, and is now owned by the National Trust.
1.2 miSW
Georgian architecture
Prior Park, Bath
31 min walk • Prior Park is a Neo-Palladian house that was designed by John Wood, the Elder, and built in the 1730s and 1740s for Ralph Allen on a hill overlooking Bath, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
1 miE
Museum, Historical place, Science museum
Claverton Pumping Station, Cotswold Water Park
27 min walk • Claverton Pumping Station in the village of Claverton, in the English county of Somerset, pumps water from the River Avon to the Kennet and Avon Canal using power from the flow of the River Avon.
0.6 miNW
Forts and castles
Sham Castle, Bath
16 min walk • Sham Castle is a folly on Claverton Down overlooking the city of Bath, Somerset, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. It is a screen wall with a central pointed arch flanked by two 3-storey circular turrets, which extend sideways to a 2-storey square tower at each end of the wall.
1.2 miW
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bath
31 min walk • The Church of St Mary the Virgin is located on Church Street in the Bathwick area of Bath, Somerset, England. The church is Anglican and located near Pinch's Sydney Place and Bath's famed Sydney Pleasure Gardens.
1 miW
Church
St Thomas à Becket Church, Bath
25 min walk • St Thomas à Becket Church is a parish church of Widcombe in Bath, Somerset southwest England, and is one of a number of churches named after Thomas Becket. It is a Grade II* listed building.
1.1 miW
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St Matthew's Church, Bath
30 min walk • St Matthew's Church in Widcombe is an Anglican church located on Cambridge Place in Widcombe, the southeastern section of Bath, Somerset.

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Which popular attractions are close to University of Bath?

Nearby attractions include Bathampton Down, Cotswold Water Park (12 min walk), North Road Quarry, Bath (13 min walk), Sham Castle, Bath (16 min walk), American Museum in Britain, Cotswold Water Park (16 min walk).

How to get to University of Bath by public transport?

The nearest stations to University of Bath:

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Arrivals Square • Lines: 18, 418, U18 (3 min walk)
The Avenue • Lines: U18 (4 min walk)