About
Designed by Robert Adam in 1774 for William Pulteney, the bridge was built to connect the city centre to a planned new town on the eastern side of the Avon. The Italian Renaissance influence — small shops set into both sides, façades unbroken across the river — makes it unlike any other bridge in Britain.
Stand on Grand Parade just downstream of the bridge for the classic view; the elegant horseshoe-shaped weir below was added in the 1970s to control flooding.
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A Roman spa, a Georgian crescent and a literary capital — Bath sits where the Cotswolds meet the West Country.
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