Royal Crescent

Hierdie gebou is baie indrukwekkend - dit is gebou in 'n semi-sirkel en bestaan uit 3o huise aanmekaar. Die groen grasperk voor dit is glo gebruik vir skape om te wei. En dele van die vervalle muurtjie is nog sigbaar om die skape juis van die mense te skei. Die muurtjie is glo 'n "ha-ha" genoem, omdat commoners glo "ha-ha" geroep het as hulle geval het van die muurtjie af. Maar dit klink vir my uiters absurd en ons glo dit nie juis nie - ek bedoel, wie sal nou "ha-ha" roep as mens val? Bekendes soos Jane Austen het glo by tye daar gebly.

"The land for this development was acquired by John Wood the Younger in 1766. It was meadow and pasture land outside the old city boundary. The building took place between 1767 and 1775. John Wood the Younger designed the crescent as a row of 30 lodging houses for the gentry coming to Bath for the season. The 30 houses have an almost totally uniform appearance and there are 114 Ionic columns to the front. No 1 Royal Crescent has been fully restored as a Georgian Town House and is open to the public. Fortunately the open space to the front of the crescent still exists as undeveloped and is often used for concerts, firework displays and hot air balloon ascents. The "Grand Old" Duke of York lived in No 1 in 1796."