Places to explore near Bath Spa StationBath

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.

0.1 km SW · spans 5 counties

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

0.4 km N

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

0.4 km N · Gloucestershire, Somerset & Worcestershire

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

0.5 km SE

Steaming Roman thermal baths in the heart of Bath.

0.5 km NW

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

1.3 km NW

Landscape garden with a Palladian bridge over Bath.

1.6 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.

3.5 km E

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

4.4 km SE

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

4.7 km W

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

5.6 km SE

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

6.6 km E · spans 10 counties

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

7.1 km SE

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

7.2 km SE

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

7.4 km S

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

8 km E

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

8.1 km NW · spans 14 counties

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

8.1 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.

8.2 km SE

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

9.2 km S

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

0.9 km SE

A National Trust place in Somerset.

1 km N

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

1.3 km NW

A National Trust place in Somerset.

2.1 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 SE · Somerset & Gloucestershire

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

3.2 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.

6.6 km NW

A country park in Wiltshire.

7.2 km SE