Places to explore near Bath

Late Gothic abbey church beside the Roman Baths, known for its fan vaulting and the angels climbing ladders up its west front.

0.1 km SE

A hundred miles of honeyed limestone, beech hangers and escarpment views to the Severn.

0.1 km NW · Gloucestershire, Somerset & Worcestershire

Steaming Roman thermal baths in the heart of Bath.

0.1 km SW

The broad-beam crossing of southern England — river, canal and river again from Bristol's Avon to the Thames at Reading, over the chalk by the Caen Hill flight.

0.2 km NE · spans 5 counties

John Wood the Younger's sweep of 30 Georgian houses, built 1767 to 1774, its 114 columns facing open parkland.

0.8 km NW

Honey-coloured limestone villages scattered across rolling sheep country, and paths enough to link them all up

0.9 km E

Landscape garden with a Palladian bridge over Bath.

2.1 km SE

John Rennie's Grade I aqueduct carrying the Kennet & Avon Canal over the Avon valley — the first canal structure in Britain to be scheduled.

3.8 km E

Farm shop and cafe on the countryside edge west of Bath, winner of the 2026 farm-cafe title.

4.5 km W

Village pub in the Avon valley near Bath, among Britain's 100 best.

4.9 km SE

Family farm shop and kitchen above the Avon valley, named the nation's best farm cafe in 2023.

6 km SE

Boston to Abbotsbury down the limestone belt — 290 miles waymarked in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

6.9 km E · spans 10 counties

Harold Peto's Italian hillside garden of terraces, columns and a colonnaded cloister.

7.6 km SE

Kitchen restaurant at Iford Manor's historic gardens in the valley near Bradford-on-Avon.

7.7 km SE

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

7.7 km NW · spans 14 counties

Neolithic long barrow near Wellow with seven burial chambers off a low passage and a large fossil ammonite set in its entrance stone.

7.8 km S

A stone village pub near Bradford-on-Avon whose hosts were Licensees of the Year 2018.

8.2 km E

Riverside cloth town on the edge of the Cotswolds, its steep lanes of weavers' cottages rising above a packhorse bridge and Saxon church.

8.5 km SE · Wiltshire

Great 14th-century barn of Shaftesbury Abbey's farm at Barton, 51 metres long, its stone-slate roof carried on massive timber crucks.

8.6 km SE

Cider and ale served straight from casks on a stillage in the window recess of a cottage with no bar at all.

9.7 km S

Palladian country-house hotel with rooms near Bath, long-held star and walled kitchen garden.

10.8 km NE

Baroque mansion in a deer-grazed valley.

11 km N

A Georgian coaching inn with rooms in a small Wiltshire market town, county winner in 2024.

13.2 km NE

Handsome former weaving town of golden Bath stone, with almshouses, an arcaded high street and peacocks roaming Corsham Court's park.

13.4 km NE · Wiltshire

Postcard Cotswold village around a green with a duck pond, ringed by Grade II listed stone cottages.

13.5 km NE · Wiltshire

Honey-stone Cotswold village around a medieval market cross and packhorse bridge, often called England's prettiest and a favourite film location.

15.3 km NE · Wiltshire

15th-century coaching inn in the picture-book village of Mells, an olive gastropub pick.

15.8 km S

Domesday village of honey-coloured hamstone on the Mendip fringe, with a manor, a leafy street called New Street and an Easter Daffodil Day.

15.8 km S · Somerset

National Trust-owned village of timbered and stone cottages with a medieval abbey and barn, kept free of modern clutter and much used on screen.

16.8 km E · Wiltshire

A limestone upland riddled with caves and gorges, an easy high point, and old lead-mining country on top

16.8 km W

Where Fox Talbot made the world's oldest surviving photographic negative in 1835.

17.3 km E

Independent-spirited market town on the Mendip edge, its steep cobbled Catherine Hill and Cheap Street lined with galleries, makers and a monthly market.

17.3 km S · Somerset

Former weaving village near Trowbridge with a market cross, old lock-up and village pump, and a grand Perpendicular church.

17.4 km SE · Wiltshire

Former Augustinian abbey founded in 1140, with a rare hall-church east end whose aisles rise as high as the choir.

18.4 km NW

Moated French-style tower castle in a village.

19.2 km S

Mendip-edge village gathered round a moated fourteenth-century castle, one of the very few in Somerset ringed by water.

19.2 km S · Somerset

A Victorian swimming bath of about 1850 in Clifton, restored in 2008 as a heated pool with a spa and restaurant.

19.5 km NW

A Repton-landscaped park of 850 acres, home to a deer herd and the Balloon Fiesta.

19.8 km W

The oldest and best known of the Wiltshire horses, cut into the down below Bratton's Iron Age ramparts and remodelled in 1778; it shows for miles across the vale.

19.8 km SE

Big chalk downland and old hunting country, with some of the darkest night skies in southern England

20 km S

Chain bridge slung 75 m above the Avon at high water, built to Brunel's design and finished in 1864, five years after his death.

20.3 km NW

Elizabethan house with Britain's first safari park.

22.8 km S

A flight of 29 locks climbing 237 feet in two miles on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Devizes, a triumph of Georgian engineering.

24 km E

Rolling chalk downland above the Vale of the White Horse, threaded by one of Britain's oldest roads

24.1 km E

A National Trust place in Somerset.

0.5 km N

Opened in 1830 by an eleven-year-old Princess Victoria, below the Royal Crescent.

0.9 km NW

A hillside cemetery laid out by John Claudius Loudon in 1844, above Bath.

1.4 km SE

A National Trust place in Somerset.

2.5 km SE

The connector from the Cotswold Way at Cold Ashton to the Mendips at Shipham — limestone to limestone, marked with an ammonite.

3.1 km NE · Somerset & Gloucestershire

Hillside gardens at Claverton Manor above Bath, with a replica of George Washington's Mount Vernon garden and a New American arboretum.

3.5 km E

Stone monument of 1720 on Lansdown Hill above Bath, marking where the Royalist commander Sir Bevil Grenville was mortally wounded in the 1643 battle.

6.1 km NW

A country park in Wiltshire.

7.6 km SE