More About the Baths in Bath

Around the 12th century, Bath became a city of weavers, and it prospered by the wool and cloth trade. Kings came to Bath to its curative waters as well as to play the gaming tables. Bath in later centuries crept back to its swamp days and the town of Wells was preferred than Bath with its stinking cisterns.

With the new King Henry VII, Bath was given a new lease of life and he gave his support for the building of the Abbey that one sees to this day. Some call it the Lantern of the west. And Bath was again thronged with visitors as well as kings and Queens. Although Bath had only a population of 3000, the city was well able to cope with the demands of all the visitors. During the Georgian era was when Bath was really transformed and many of its buildings of today were built, the population of Bath changed from 3000 to 34000, which made Bath at that time, the 8th largest city in England. All the gentry and the who’s who of England’s high society would be seen mingling here in the 18th century.

In 1889 the Baths were re-designed and called Kings and Queens Baths, as well as new hotels sprung up. During the re-design, they discovered the old Roman Baths below and it was this find that inspired the architects to design the Romanesque setting with colonnade and many statues.

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