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Timeline of Bath, Somerset

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bath, Somerset, England.

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{{History of England}}

Prehistory

  • Mesolithic – Human activity on Bathampton Down.
  • Iron Age – Hillfort on Bathampton Down.{{cite web|author-link=Mick Aston|first=Mick|last=Aston|title=The Bath Region, from Late Prehistory to the Middle Ages|url=https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/Media/CHC%20Images/Vol%2001%20-%2003.%20Aston%20-%20The%20Bath%20Region.pdf|publisher=Bath Spa University|access-date=2016-07-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919083613/https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/Media/CHC%20Images/Vol%2001%20-%2003.%20Aston%20-%20The%20Bath%20Region.pdf|archive-date=2016-09-19}}
  • 863 BC (traditional date) – In legend, King Bladud discovers the sacred spring at Bath.{{cite book|author=Geoffrey of Monmouth|title=Historia Regum Britanniae|year=1136|author-link=Geoffrey of Monmouth|title-link=Historia Regum Britanniae}}

1st to 5th centuries

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  • c. 60s – First Roman temple structures built, around the hot water springs; completed by 76.
  • 2nd century
  • Early: Baths extended.
  • Late: Baths vaulted.
  • 3rd century – By this time, Bath city walls are built for defence.
  • 300–350 – Evidence for Christians in Bath.
  • 5th century – Following the end of Roman rule in Britain, Bath is largely abandoned.

6th to 10th centuries

  • 516 – Battle of Badon: A famous battle against the Saxons, where a progenitor of King Arthur is said to have been victorious; perhaps on Bathampton Down.
  • 577 – Battle of Deorham: Bath is captured by the Saxons{{cite web|url=http://www.mayorofbath.co.uk/saxon-bath|publisher=The Mayor of Bath|title=Saxon Bath|access-date=2016-07-27|archive-date=1 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151101202023/http://www.mayorofbath.co.uk/saxon-bath}} and, being north of the River Avon, then falls within the Saxon petty-kingdom of the Hwicce.
  • 628 – Following the Battle of Cirencester, the Hwicce come under the rule of the kingdom of Mercia.
  • 676 – Abbess Berta founds a convent under the protection of Osric, king of the Hwicce.
  • 757 – Cynewulf of Wessex grants land in Bath to monks of St Peter.{{Clarify|date=January 2021}}
  • 781 – Offa of Mercia takes control of the monastery from the Bishop of Worcester.
  • 878 – Bath becomes a royal borough (burh) of Alfred the Great, in his kingdom of Wessex (and also in the county of Somerset).
  • c. 900 – Market active.{{citation |publisher=Institute of Historical Research, Centre for Metropolitan History|work=Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516|first=Samantha|last=Letters|year=2005|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40433|title=Somerset}}
  • 973 – 11 May (Whitsunday): Edgar, King of England 959–975, is crowned and anointed with his wife Ælfthryth at Bath Abbey by Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury.Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. {{cite web|work=British History Timeline|title=Vikings and Anglo-Saxons|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/vikinganglosaxons_timeline_noflash.shtml|publisher=BBC|access-date=2013-09-12}} The Church of St Swithin, Walcot, is founded at about this date.
  • c. 980 – Ælfheah becomes abbot of Bath.

11th to 17th centuries

  • 1087 – Town, Abbey and mint pass to John of Tours.
  • 1090 – John of Tours, Bishop of Wells, moves the episcopal seat to Bath, giving it city status.
  • Early 12th century? – King's Bath built.
  • 1102 – Bath fair active.
  • 1137 – Major fire.
  • 1148–1161 – Abbey consecrated between these dates.
  • c. 1174 – St John's Hospital founded.
  • 1273 – Old Bridge extant.
  • 1285 – Church of St Michael's Within built in St John's Hospital.
  • c. 1333 – Monks of the abbey establish a weaving trade in Broad Street.{{cite book|first=Cathryn|last=Spence|title=Water, History & Style – Bath: World Heritage Site|location=Brimscombe Port|publisher=The History Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0-7524-8814-1}}
  • 1371 – Market mentioned in charter.
  • c. 1435 – Hospital of St Catherine established.
  • 1482 – "Sally Lunn's House" built.
  • c. 1495 – St Mary Magdalen, Holloway, built as a chapel to a leper's hospital.
  • 1499 – Abbey found derelict by Oliver King, Bishop of Bath and Wells, who begins its reconstruction.{{cite web|url=http://www.sacred-destinations.com/england/bath-abbey|title=Bath Abbey|work=Sacred Destinations|access-date=2016-08-01}}

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  • 1533 – Rebuilding of Abbey substantially completed by this date.
  • 1539 – January: Dissolution of the Monasteries: Abbey surrendered.
  • 1552
  • King Edward's School founded as a grammar school.
  • Approximate date: First market house built.
  • 1572
  • The roofless Abbey is given to the corporation of Bath{{cite book|series=Pevsner Architectural Guides|title=Bath|first=Michael|last=Forsyth|year=2003|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven|isbn=978-0-300-10177-5}} for restoration as a parish church.
  • Dr. John Jones makes the first public endorsement of the medicinal properties of the city's water.
  • 1576 – Queen's Bath built.
  • 1578 – Drinking fountain installed in the Baths.
  • 1590 – Bath chartered (city status confirmed) by Elizabeth I.
  • 1597 – Deserving poor given free use of the mineral water.
  • 1608 – Bellott's Hospital established.
  • 1613 and 1615 - Anne of Denmark, wife of James VI and I, visits Bath for her health
  • 1616 – Abbey Church consecrated.
  • 1625–1628 – Guildhall rebuilt.{{cite book |author=Wood, John |author-link=John Wood, the Elder |title=Description of Bath |year=1765 |edition=2nd |location=London |publisher=W. Bathoe |url=https://archive.org/details/adescriptionbat00woodgoog}}
  • 1643 – 5 July: Battle of Lansdowne fought near the city.
  • 1657 – Regular coach service from London.
  • 1676 – Dr. Thomas Guidott publishes A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. Also, Some Enquiries into the Nature of the water, the first published account of the medicinal properties of the city's water.
  • 1677 – West Gate pub in business.
  • 1680 – Supposed origin of the Sally Lunn bun.
  • 1687 – Mary of Modena, queen consort of James II of England, visits in the hope that Bath waters would aid conception; by the end of the year she is pregnant with James Francis Edward Stuart.

1700s

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  • 1702–1703 – Queen Anne visits.
  • 1704 – First pump-room built;{{cite book|publisher=Frederick Warne & Co.|location=London|author-link=George Henry Townsend|first=George Henry|last=Townsend|title=A Manual of Dates|date=1867|edition=2nd|chapter=Bath|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/manualofdatesdic00townrich#page/125/mode/1up}} Richard "Beau" Nash is appointed Master of Ceremonies.
  • 1705 – First theatre in the city built.
  • 1707 – Bath Turnpike Trust established.{{cite book|title=The Industrial Archaeology of Bath|first=R. A.|last=Buchanan|publisher=Bath University Press|year=1969|isbn=0-900843-04-7}}
  • 1708 – Harrison's Assembly Rooms, with a riverside walk, open.
  • 1711 – Bluecoat school founded as a charity.
  • 1712 – March: Ralph Allen appointed postmaster.
  • 1715 – Church of St Michael's Within in St John's Hospital rebuilt to the design of William Killigrew.
  • 1720 – Ralph Allen begins to farm the Cross and Bye Posts in the south west of England.
  • 1717 – Approximate date: Green Street developed.
  • 1721 – Bluecoat school opens.{{cite book|author=Tymms, Samuel|location=London|publisher=J. B. Nichols and Son|year=1832|series=The Family Topographer: Being a Compendious Account of the ... Counties of England|oclc=2127940|volume=2|title=Western Circuit|chapter=Somersetshire|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/familytopograph01tymmgoog#page/n220/mode/2up}}
  • 1724 – James Leake (bookseller) in business.{{cite book|url=http://bookhistory.blogspot.com/2006/01/somerset.html|title=British Book Trades: Topographical Listings. Somerset|series=Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History|first=Ian|last=Maxted|year=2006|access-date=2013-09-12}}{{cite journal|title=The Community Library: A Chapter in English Social History|first=Paul|last=Kaufman|journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society|volume=57|issue=7|pages=1–67|year=1967|jstor=1006043|doi=10.2307/1006043}}
  • 1725–1727 – Guildhall extended.
  • 1725
  • John Wood, the Elder, newly returned to Bath, presents his plans for the city to Ralph Allen.
  • Approximate date: William Oliver (physician) settles in Bath.
  • 1726
  • Ralph Allen begins buying up Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines for building stone.
  • James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, buys Chandos House to let as lodgings.
  • 1727–1728 – John Wood, the Elder, executes his first private commission in Bath, a new building for St John's Hospital.
  • 1727–1736 – Beaufort Square laid out by John Strahan.{{cite book|last=Haddon|first=John|title=Portrait of Bath|publisher=Robert Hale|location=London|year=1982|isbn=0-7091-9883-3}}
  • 1727
  • Gilt bronze head from cult statue of Sulis Minerva from the Roman Temple is found by workmen excavating a sewer and placed in the guildhall.
  • 15 December: River Avon made navigable downstream to Bristol.
  • Approximate date: Construction of Ralph Allen's Town House begins.
  • 1728
  • St John's Gate ("Trim Bridge") built.
  • First Bath Racecourse recorded.{{cite book|title=Biographical Encyclopaedia of British Racing|last1=Mortimer|first1=Roger|last2=Onslow|first2=Richard|last3=Willett|first3=Peter|year=1978|publisher=Macdonald and Jane's|location=London|isbn=0-354-08536-0}}
  • 1728–1736 – Queen Square laid out by John Wood, the Elder.
  • 1730s – Parade Gardens laid out.
  • 1731 – A tramroad is opened to carry building stone from Ralph Allen's Combe Down mine through his Prior Park estate down to the Kennet and Avon Canal.
  • c. 1733
  • Thomas Warr Attwood becomes de facto first Bath City Surveyor and Bath City Architect.
  • First printing press established in the city, by Felix Farley of Bristol.
  • 1734
  • Royal visit by William IV, Prince of Orange, marked by an obelisk of 1735.
  • Construction begins on Ralph Allen's house at Prior Park to the design of John Wood, the Elder.
  • 25 December: St Mary the Virgin opened near Queen Square as the city's first proprietary chapel (foundation stone laid 25 March 1732; designed by John Wood, the Elder).
  • 1735
  • Construction of New Bridge to carry the Bristol Road over the Avon begins.
  • Gay Street laid out by John Wood, the Elder.
  • 1738 – Royal visit by Frederick, Prince of Wales with Princess Augusta, marked by erection of an obelisk in Queen Square.
  • 1739
  • Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases (Royal Mineral Water Hospital, "The Min") established by an act of Parliament{{which|date=January 2025}} as The Hospital or Infirmary in the City of Bath; it will be built to plans of 1738 by John Wood, the Elder.{{cite web|url=http://www.bath-heritage.co.uk/rnhrd.html|title=Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases|publisher=Bath Heritage|access-date=2013-01-13}}
  • Portrait painter William Hoare settles in Bath.
  • c. 1741 – North Parade built by John Wood, the Elder.
  • 1742
  • Ralph Allen elected mayor and his residence at Prior Park is completed.
  • Church of St Swithin, Walcot, rebuilt following storm damage in 1739.
  • William Frederick (bookseller) in business.
  • 1743–1749 – South Parade built to the design of John Wood, the Elder.
  • 1744
  • 27 February: The Bath Journal, the city's first newspaper and a predecessor of the Bath Chronicle, begins publication.
  • Sham bridge in Ralph Allen's Prior Park Landscape Garden estate designed by Alexander Pope.{{cite book|first1=Gwyn|last1=Headley|first2=Wim|last2=Meulenkamp|title=Follies, grottoes & garden buildings|publisher=Aurum Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-85410-625-4|year=1999}}
  • 1745 – Beau Nash forced to retire as Master of Ceremonies due to anti-gambling laws.
  • 1747 – Bath Pauper Scheme originates.
  • 1750
  • 27 October: Old Orchard Street Theatre opens as St James' Theatre.{{cite web |author=Historic England |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443204 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102110027/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=443204 |archive-date=2012-11-02 |title=Masonic Hall formerly Theatre (443204) |work=Images of England |author-link = Historic England}}
  • Approximate date: Bath Oliver biscuit devised by William Oliver (physician).
  • 1751 – Pump Room enlarged, truncating the King's Bath.
  • 1752 – King Edward's School rebuilt in Broad Street.
  • 1754
  • February: The Circus house construction begins to the design of John Wood, the Elder.{{NHLE|num=1394142|desc=1–30 The Circus||date=2010-10-15|access-date=2016-07-27}}
  • Old Bridge rebuilt.
  • 1754–1755 – North and South Gates demolished (West Gate demolished c. 1776).
  • 1755
  • Bath Advertiser newspaper begins publication.{{cite web|url=http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&vl(10130439UI0)=sub&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1378976856762&srt=lso01&mode=Advanced&vl(1UIStartWith1)=contains&indx=1&tb=t&vl(41497491UI2)=any&vl(freeText0)=Bath++%28England%29++++Newspapers&fn=search&vid=BLVU1&vl(freeText2)=&frbg=&ct=search&vl(10130438UI1)=any&vl(1UIStartWith2)=contains&dum=true&vl(1UIStartWith0)=exact&vl(46690061UI3)=all_items&Submit=Search&vl(freeText1)=|title=Bath (England) Newspapers|work=Main Catalogue|publisher=British Library|access-date=2013-09-12}}
  • Roman Bath rediscovered.{{cite book|title=Chronological Historian ... of Great Britain|author=Toone, William|publisher=J. Dowding|location=London|year=1835|edition=2nd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5csAAAAMAAJ }}
  • Kingston Baths built for Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull on the site of the Abbey cloister.
  • Palladian bridge in Ralph Allen's Prior Park Landscape Garden built to a design by Richard Jones.

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File:Thomas Rowlandson - Comforts of Bath- The Pump Room - Google Art Project.jpg, Comforts of Bath – The Pump Room (1798)]]

  • 1796? – York Street opened.
  • 1797–1798 – Cross Bath rebuilt by John Palmer.
  • 1797
  • 30 May: Abolitionist William Wilberforce marries Barbara Spooner at the Church of St Swithin, Walcot, the couple having met on 15 April in Bath.
  • House of Antiquities opened to display archaeological finds.
  • 1798 – 7 November: Christ Church dedicated as a proprietary chapel built to the design of John Palmer.
  • 1799
  • By summer: William Smith produces the first large-scale geological map, of the area round Bath.{{cite book|author-link=Simon Winchester|first=Simon|last=Winchester|title=The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology|year=2001|location=New York|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=0-14-028039-1|title-link=The Map that Changed the World}}
  • 8 August: Lace goes missing from Elizabeth Gregory's milliner's shop; Jane Leigh Perrot (Jane Austen's aunt) is charged with its theft.{{cite book|title=The Trial of Jane Leigh Perrot|year=1800}}
  • 11 December: William Smith draws up a table of strata round Bath.
  • Sydney Hotel opens in Sydney Gardens to the design of Charles Harcourt Masters.
  • A new Philosophical Society is established.

1800s

File:A NEW AND CORRECT PLAN of the CITY of BATH (1818).jpg

  • 1800
  • North side of Pulteney Bridge collapses in a flood.
  • S. W. Simms (bookseller) in business.
  • Approximate date:
  • Jewish congregation formed.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Roth|first=Cecil|author-link=Cecil Roth|editor=Berenbaum, Michael|editor2=Skolnik, Fred|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Judaica|title=Bath|edition=2nd|year=2007|publisher=Macmillan Reference USA|volume=3|location=Detroit|page=210}}
  • First houses in Sydney Place completed to the design of Thomas Baldwin.
  • 1801
  • January: Jane Austen becomes resident in Bath when her father retires here; she will remain until summer 1806 living mostly in the new-built Sydney Place.
  • 1 May: Kennet and Avon Canal opens from Bath to Devizes{{cite book|first=Kenneth R.|last=Clew|title=The Kennet & Avon Canal: an illustrated history|location=Newton Abbot|publisher=David & Charles|edition=3rd|year=1985|isbn=0-7153-8656-5}} (completion of the locks at the latter place at the end of 1810 creates through inland water communication to London).{{cite book|last=Allsop|first=Niall|title=The Kennet & Avon Canal|year=1987|publisher=Millstream Books|location=Bath|isbn=978-0-948975-15-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/kennetavoncanalu0000alls/page/5 5]|url=https://archive.org/details/kennetavoncanalu0000alls/page/5}}

File:Iron footbridge Sydney Gardens, Bath.JPG in Sydney Gardens]]

  • 1802 – Balloon ascents from Sydney Gardens.
  • 1805
  • 1 January: Jane Austen's father, the Rev. George Austen, dies in Bath; he is buried at the Church of St Swithin, Walcot, where he had been married in 1764
  • Penitentiary established.
  • New Theatre Royal (replacing the Old Orchard Street Theatre) and Barker's Picture Gallery open.{{cite book|publisher=Printed by Mary Meyler and Son|location=Bath|title=Annals of Bath, from the year 1800 to the passing of the new municipal act|url=https://archive.org/details/annalsofbathfrom00main|date=1838|oclc=5258530|ol=23277637M}}
  • De Montalt Mill, Combe Down, established as a paper mill.
  • 1806 – East wing of Grand Pump Room completed.
  • 1808 – New houses in Sydney Place completed to the design of John Pinch the elder.
  • 1810
  • Lancasterian Free School established.
  • Union Street completed.
  • 1812 – Jewish Burial Ground, Combe Down opened.
  • 1813 - Claverton Pumping Station opens, allowing the Bath locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal to be used in periods of low rainfall.
  • 1815
  • Cleveland Pools opened.{{NHLE|num=1396146|desc=Cleveland Baths|grade=II*|access-date=2013-09-13}}
  • Stothert's iron foundry established.
  • 1816 – 8 January: Third Bath Philosophical Society formed.{{cite book|editor=Wallis, Peter|title=Innovation and discovery: Bath and the rise of science|publisher=Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution; William Herschel Society|year=2008|isbn=978-0-948975-82-0}}
  • 1817
  • Royal visit by Queen Charlotte.
  • Atkinson & Tucker (booksellers) in business.
  • 1818 – Bath Gas Light Company established.
  • 1819 – Masonic Hall dedicated.
  • 1821 – 6 February: Original Assembly Rooms in Terrace Walk destroyed by fire.
  • 1822
  • Norfolk Crescent completed to the design of John Pinch the elder.
  • Post office in Broad Street.
  • 1823 – Jolly & Son, drapers, established.{{cite web|url=https://www.housefraserarchive.ac.uk/company/?id=c1581|title=Company: Jolly & Son Ltd|work=The House of Fraser Archive|publisher=University of Glasgow Archive Services|accessdate=2024-12-29}}
  • 1824 – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution founded (given Royal status 1837).{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.brlsi.org/about-us/history|publisher=Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution|access-date=2013-09-13}}
  • 1825
  • 19 January: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution opens its premises on the site of the original Assembly Rooms in Terrace Walk.
  • The Corridor, one of the world's earliest retail arcades, is built to the design of architect Henry Goodridge.
  • Mechanics Institute opens.
  • Lansdown Cricket Club formed.
  • 1826
  • Bath United Hospital opens in Beau Street in a building designed by John Pinch the elder.
  • A. H. Hale's pharmacy in business in Argyle Street.
  • 1827
  • Beckford's Tower (Lansdown Tower) is completed by Henry Goodridge for William Beckford.
  • Cleveland Bridge opened as a toll bridge.{{cite web |author=Historic England |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=442453 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022003620/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=442453 |archive-date=2012-10-22 |title=Cleveland Bridge (442453) |work=Images of England |author-link = Historic England}}
  • John Loudon McAdam appointed Surveyor of the Bath Roads, a post which he holds until his death in 1836.
  • Partis College completed as almshouses for women by Ann and Fletcher Partis.
  • 1829 – New basin at baths completed.
  • 1830
  • Victoria Park is opened by the 11-year-old Princess Victoria as a private pleasure ground.{{cite web|url=http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/2871|title=Royal Victoria Park, Bath, Bath, England|work=Parks & Gardens UK|publisher=Parks & Gardens Data Services|date=2007-07-27|access-date=2016-07-26|archive-date=1 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301134051/http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/2871}}
  • Prior Park College is opened as the Sacred Heart College.
  • 1831 – Jolly's department store opens as The Bath Emporium.
  • 1832 – Sydney Buildings constructed.{{cite book|title=Street-Lore of Bath|first=R. E. M.|last=Peach|publisher=Simpkin, Marshall|location=London|year=1893|url=https://archive.org/stream/streetloreofbath00peaciala#page/n7/mode/2up}}
  • 1833–1834 – George Phillips Manners restores the Abbey, replacing the pinnacles.
  • 1834–1837 – St Michael's Without church rebuilt to the design of George Phillips Manners.
  • 1834 – Stothert, Rayne & Pitt acquire the Newark Iron Foundry.
  • 1836
  • 1 January: Local government reformed under terms of the Municipal Corporations Act 1835; city corporation is obliged to surrender control over Abbey appointments.
  • 28 March: Bath Poor Law Union formed and begins construction of a new workhouse at Combe Down.
  • 30 May: Major fire at Prior Park.
  • North Parade Bridge built in cast iron to the design of William Tierney Clark and Victoria suspension bridge built to the patent of James Dredge, Sr.
  • 1837 – Victoria Column erected.{{cite book|title=Notabilia of Bath|first=S. D.|last=Major|year=1879|location=Bath|publisher=E.R. Blackett|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TaoHAAAAQAAJ}}
  • 1839 – Isaac Pitman moves to Bath.
  • 1840
  • 2 May: First Penny Black postage stamp sent from 8 Broad Street by Thomas Musgrave.
  • 6 June: Novelist Fanny Burney dies in Bath; she is buried at the Church of St Swithin, Walcot.
  • 31 August: Great Western Railway opened from Bath to Bristol Temple Meads; 30 June 1841 through to London Paddington.
  • 1841
  • January: Major floods.
  • November: First "Daguerreotype Institute" (photographic studio) in Bath opened, in Subscription Walk Gardens.
  • 1846 – City authorised to provide drinking water from springs at Bathampton and Batheaston.
  • 1847 – Commercial Reading Room and Tottenham Library founded.
  • 1851 – Kingswood School moves to Bath.
  • 1852 – Bath School of Art founded.
  • 1854 – Post Office in York Buildings, George Street (1750s).
  • 1855
  • February: Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club established by Leonard Jenyns.
  • Bath Quartet Society established.{{cite book|publisher=Jolly & Son|location=Bath|title=Handy Guide to Bath|url=https://archive.org/details/handyguidetobath00bath|date=1900|oclc=12987834|ol=17860578M}}
  • Corn market built in Walcot Street.
  • 1856 – J. B. Bowler, engineer and carbonated drink manufacturer, in business.
  • 1859–1860 – New Bluecoat school built.
  • 1861–1863 – St John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in South Parade is built to the design of Charles Francis Hansom.
  • 1861 – Guildhall Market built.
  • 1862 – 18 April: A major fire causes the Theatre Royal to be rebuilt.{{cite news|title=Destruction of Bath Theatre|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000187/18620424/001/0003|access-date=2015-10-18|work=Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette|date=1862-04-24|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}
  • 1863 – Widcombe ("Halfpenny") footbridge first built over the Avon in wood.
  • 1864
  • Bath United Hospital given its Royal prefix on opening of its Albert wing.
  • Locksbrook Cemetery opens as Walcot Cemetery.
  • 1865
  • Bath Rugby founded by members of Lansdown Cricket Club as Bath Football Club.
  • Old Orchard Street Theatre becomes a Masonic Hall.
  • 1867
  • Alexander Graham Bell rigs up a telegraph line in Bennett Street while teaching at Somerset College.
  • James Irvine records remains of the Roman temple of Sulis Minerva.
  • 1869–1885 – Excavations of Roman Baths by Maj. C. E. Davis, the city architect.
  • 1869
  • 4 August: Queen Square station opens to passengers as terminus of the Midland Railway's Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line.
  • Original White Horse Inn (opposite the Pump Room) is demolished.
  • 1870–1873 – St Andrew's Church built to the design of George Gilbert Scott.
  • 1874
  • 20 July: Somerset and Dorset Railway begins operating from Queen Square station.
  • Manvers Estate sold.
  • 1875
  • Bath High School for Girls established by the Girls' Public Day School Company.
  • ?: Bath City Police established.
  • 1877 – 6 June: Widcombe footbridge collapses, killing eleven, causing it to be rebuilt as a wrought-iron lattice girder.
  • 1878
  • Bath College opens.
  • Corporation acquires Kingston Baths.
  • 1880
  • 28 February: Bath Golf Club founded
  • 24 December: Bath Tramways Company begins operating horsecars.
  • Approximate date: Blaine's Folly built.
  • 1881 – Population: 52,557.{{cite book|publisher=John Murray|location=London|title=Handbook for Travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire|date=1882|edition=4th|chapter=Bath|title-link=Murray's Handbooks for Travellers|hdl=2027/uc1.l0098676091}}
  • 1882 – Holburne Museum fine art collection bequeathed to the city.
  • 1883 – Queen's Bath largely demolished revealing a Roman circular bath.
  • 1886 – First telephone exchange.
  • 1887 – Botanical Gardens opened in Royal Victoria Park.
  • 1888 – Bath Photographic Society formed.{{cite book|title=International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin|year=1891|publisher=E. & H. T. Anthony & Company|location=New York|chapter=Photographic Societies of the British Isles and Colonies|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QD0XAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA438}}
  • 1889
  • 1 April: Bath becomes a county borough under terms of the Local Government Act 1888.
  • 21 June: William Friese-Greene, working in Bath since c. 1875, patents a "chronophotographic" camera, an early form of movie camera.
  • New douche and massage baths incorporating parts of the Queen's Bath and of the 1786 New Private Baths and including an arch over York Street completed to the design of C. E. Davis.
  • Landslide destroys nine houses in Camden Crescent.{{cite web|last1=Hobbs|first1=P.R.N|last2=Jenkins|first2=g.O.|title=Appendix 1 Major recorded landslides in the Bath area In: Bath's 'foundered strata' - a re-interpretation Physical Hazards Programme Research Report OR/08/052|url=http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/14771/1/OR08052.pdf|publisher=British Geological Survey|access-date=7 September 2016}}
  • Twerton Co-operative Society, a consumers' co-operative, opens its first shop.Pearce, David (2015). "The Co-operative Movement in Bath". Proceedings of the History of Bath Research Group. 3:15–18.
  • Bath Association Football Club formed.
  • 1890 – Electricity generating station begins operation.
  • 1891 – Bath Fire Brigade and Ambulance Service established.
  • 1892 – Technical training begins, origin of City of Bath Technical School and Bath College of Domestic Science.
  • 1893 – Holburne Museum opens in Charlotte Street.
  • 1894 – Major floods.
  • 1896 – April: Bath Municipal Technical College and Bath City Secondary School established in a new north extension of the Guildhall.
  • 1897
  • 18 October: Victoria Art Gallery foundation stone laid to commemorate the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria.
  • Henrietta Gardens laid out to commemorate the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria.
  • Roman Baths and associated Concert Room designed by J. M. Brydon are opened to the public.

1900s

File:Former Empire Hotel and Pulteney Bridge, Bath.jpg with Pulteney Bridge beyond]]

  • 1900
  • Silcox Son & Wicks, furnishers, established.
  • May: Victoria Art Gallery and Reference Library opens.{{cite book|publisher=Karl Baedeker|location=Leipzig|title=Great Britain|date=1910|edition=7th|chapter=Bath|hdl=2027/mdp.39015010546516}}{{cite book|title=International Directory of Booksellers and Bibliophile's Manual|publisher=J. Clarke|year=1906|editor=Clegg, James|url=https://archive.org/details/cleggsinternati01thomgoog}}
  • New (redbrick) houses for the working classes erected in Dolemeads.
  • 1901
  • Empire Hotel in business (designed by C. E. Davis).{{cite news|title=Small Talk of the Week|work=The Sketch|date=1901-12-18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5hRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA328}}
  • Population: 49,839.{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Bath (England) |volume= 03 | pages = 511–512}}
  • 1902 – 25 July: Horse tram system closes for electrification, being temporarily replaced by horsebuses.
  • 1904 – 2 January: Bath Electric Tramways Company begins operating.
  • 1905 – 12 December: Midland Bridge, a replacement lattice-girder bridge over the Avon, is opened.
  • 1907 – Bath School of Pharmacy established.
  • 1909
  • c. February: Old Bath Preservation Society, predecessor of Bath Preservation Trust, set up.
  • 19–24 July: Historical Pageant staged in Royal Victoria Park.{{cite web|title=Bath Historical Pageant|work=The Redress of the Past|url=http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/985/|access-date=2019-11-09}}
  • St Winifred's Quarry built as a house on Combe Down to the design of Charles Voysey.
  • 1910 – Jubilee Hall Cinema operating in Assembly Rooms.
  • 1911 – 9 November: Twerton and parts of Charlcombe and Weston are incorporated within the city boundary under terms of the Local Government Act 1888.
  • 1915
  • T. R. Hayes, furnishers, established.
  • December: Robert Atkinson (architect) is commissioned to produce a post-war plan for the city.
  • 1916
  • Bath War Hospital set up at Combe Park.
  • Holburne Museum moves to the former Sydney Hotel.
  • 1920 – Bath Tramways Motor Company set up to operate motor buses.
  • 1923
  • Roman hot plunge baths excavated.
  • Kingston Baths demolished.
  • 1925
  • Bath Corporation Act includes conservation powers.
  • Lansdown Water Tower built.
  • 1927
  • 16 May: New Post Office and Telephone Exchange opens in Northgate Street.
  • 3 November: City war memorial dedicated.
  • 1929
  • 20 June: Cleveland Bridge, having been acquired in 1925 by Bath Corporation and rebuilt, is freed of toll.
  • July: Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady & St Alphege completed in Oldfield Park to the design of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.
  • 1931 – October: Assembly Rooms purchased by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings with funds provided by Ernest Cook and transferred to the National Trust for restoration and preservation.
  • 1932
  • Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution moves to premises in Queen Square.
  • 11 December: Royal United Hospital opens on the Combe Park site{{cite web|title=A Potted History of the RUH|url=http://www.ruh.nhs.uk/about/history.asp?menu_id=1|publisher=Royal United Hospital|access-date=2013-09-13}} and its former premises are taken over by Bath Technical College.
  • 1934 – Bath Preservation Trust founded.
  • 1936–1941 – Haile Selassie, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia, spends most of his exile in Bath.
  • 1936 – North Parade Bridge rebuilt in stone-faced reinforced concrete.
  • 1937
  • Bath Corporation Act includes additional conservation powers.
  • A school crossing patrol ("lollipop lady") is appointed, one of the earliest in the UK.
  • 1938
  • 15 October: Assembly Rooms reopened after restoration.
  • Kilowatt House on Claverton Down, a unique example of modernist architecture in the city, is completed to the design of Mollie Taylor as a residence for electrical engineer Anthony Greenhill.
  • 1939
  • 6 May: The Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company, operator of the Bath tramways, converts the last remaining routes to motor bus operation.
  • 3 September: On the outbreak of World War II, departments of the Admiralty begin evacuation to Bath.
  • 1942 – 25–27 April: Bath Blitz: Three German aerial bombing raids as part of the "Baedeker Blitz" kill 417; among the buildings destroyed or badly damaged are the newly restored Assembly Rooms, St Andrew's church and All Saints Chapel.{{cite book|last=Rothnie|first=Niall|title=The Bombing of Bath: the German air raids of 1942|location=Bath|publisher=Ashgrove|year=1983|isbn=0-906798-29-9}}

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  • 1944 – March–November: John Betjeman is assigned to a wartime job working on publicity for the Admiralty at the requisitioned Empire Hotel.{{cite book|first=A. N.|last=Wilson|author-link=A. N. Wilson|title=Betjeman|location=London|publisher=Arrow Books|year=2007|isbn=978-0-099-49837-7}}
  • 1945 – Town planner Patrick Abercrombie produces A Plan for Bath for post-war reconstruction.{{cite book|author=Abercrombie, Patrick|author2=Owens, John|author3=Mealand, H. Anthony|title=A Plan for Bath|location=London|publisher=Pitman|year=1945}}
  • 1946 – October: City of Bath Bach Choir founded.
  • 1948
  • Bath Assembly (music festival) begins.
  • Queen Square is given to the citizens of Bath in memory of those killed in the Blitz.
  • 1951
  • George Perry-Smith opens the innovative Hole in the Wall restaurant.
  • July–August: John Straffen strangles two young girls.
  • 1955
  • Bath Terraces Scheme introduced to conserve the city's historic architecture.
  • Covered reservoir opens on Bathampton Down.
  • 1958 – Bus station opened in Manvers Street.
  • 1960 – December: Major floods.
  • 1961 – Bath Crematorium opens.
  • 1963
  • 23 May: Assembly Rooms reopen after post-war reconstruction incorporating the Museum of Costume.
  • 10 June: The Beatles play the Pavilion.
  • 1965–Easter 1983 – Excavations of Roman Baths under the direction of Barry Cunliffe, including areas beneath the Grand Pump Room and in the sacred spring.
  • 1965 – Town planner Colin Buchanan publishes Bath: a planning and transport study.{{cite web |url=http://museumofbatharchitecture.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Brutal-Bath-trail-leaflet.pdf |title=Brutal Bath |publisher=Museum of Bath Architecture |year=2014 |access-date=30 November 2018}}
  • 1966
  • 7 March: Bath Green Park railway station and Somerset and Dorset Railway close with effect from this date.
  • November: University of Bath chartered, work having started on its Claverton Down site in 1964.
  • Churchill Bridge replaces Old Bridge over the Avon.
  • Electricity generating station ceases operation.
  • 1969–1972 – Original Southgate Shopping Centre built to the design of Owen Luder.
  • 1969 – J. B. Bowler, engineer and carbonated drink manufacturer, ceases business.
  • 1970
  • 16 May: Reopening of Widcombe bottom lock as part of the restoration of the Kennet and Avon Canal.
  • June: Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music held.
  • 20 June: No. 1 Royal Crescent opened to the public as an historic house museum by Bath Preservation Trust after a 2-year restoration.
  • 23–29 September: Adam Fergusson's essay criticising inappropriate development, "The Sack of Bath", is published in The Times newspaper by the editor William Rees-Mogg; it is subsequently expanded into a book with photographs by Snowdon and verses by John Betjeman.{{cite book|title=The Sack of Bath: a record and an indictment|author-link=Adam Fergusson (MEP)|first=Adam|last=Fergusson|publisher=Compton Russell|location=Salisbury|year=1973|isbn=978-0-85955-002-4}}
  • 1971
  • 25 April: Population: 84,670.
  • New semicircular Pulteney Weir in the Avon designed by Neville Conder is completed.
  • Bath gasworks ceases production.
  • 1973 – 30 March: Beaufort Hotel (later Hilton Bath City Hotel) opens in Walcot Street.
  • 1974
  • 1 April: Bath becomes part of Avon non-metropolitan county under terms of the Local Government Act 1972.
  • 9 December: Irish Republican Army bomb exploded in The Corridor.{{cite news |url=https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/history/looking-back-day-ira-bomb-3628970 |title=Looking back on the day an IRA bomb exploded in Bath city centre |last=Britten |first=Elise |website=SomersetLive |publisher=Reach |date=15 December 2019 |access-date=27 March 2022}}
  • 1975
  • Bath College of Higher Education established.
  • Hermann Miller furniture factory built by Farrell/Grimshaw Partnership.
  • 1978 – Spa baths closed due to contamination.
  • 1979
  • 27 April: Bath Postal Museum opens in Great Pulteney Street.
  • Roper Rhodes bathroom accessories business launched.{{cite news|first=Malcolm|last=Dean|title=Maggie Roper|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=2017-07-22|page=37}}
  • 1981 – Bath Fringe Festival and Bath Half Marathon begin.
  • 1986
  • 26 July: Major fire at The Colonnades, Bath Street.
  • Bristol and Bath Railway Path laid out.
  • 1987
  • 22 May: GWR FM Bath launches as an independent local radio station.
  • December: City of Bath inscribed as a World Heritage Site.
  • 1989 – 11 January: Closure of Stothert & Pitt is announced.
  • 1991
  • 21 April: Population: 78,689.{{cite web|url=http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/councilanddemocracy/statisticsandcensusinformation/Pages/default.aspx|publisher=Bath and North East Somerset District Council|title=Population Statistics|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513102228/http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/councilanddemocracy/statisticsandcensusinformation/Pages/default.aspx|archive-date=2012-05-13|access-date=2013-09-12}}
  • Summer: Major fire at Prior Park.
  • 1993
  • April: Museum of East Asian Art opens.
  • May: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution relaunched at its Queen Square premises; new public library opened in the Podium.
  • 1995 – Bath Literature Festival begins.
  • 1996 – 1 April: City becomes part of the Bath and North East Somerset non-metropolitan district. Charter Trustees of the City of Bath established.
  • 1997 – Ustinov Studio (theatre) built.
  • 1999 – 15 November: Bath FM launches as an independent local radio station, broadcasting until 24 March 2010.

2000s

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  • 2000 – New Wessex Water headquarters on Claverton Down built to the design of Bennetts Associates.
  • 2001 – April: city population recorded by the census is 83,992.{{citation|url=https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/sites/default/files/sitedocuments/Planning-and-Building-Control/Planning-Policy/Evidence-Base/Recreation-Cultural-and-Services/BathandNorthEastSomersetCulturalStrategy2011-2026.pdf|author=Bath and North East Somerset Council|title=Bath and North East Somerset Cultural Strategy 2011-2026|page=40}}
  • 2002 – Bath Times newspaper begins publication as a free weekly; it ceases publication by 2007.
  • 2005
  • August: Bath Spa University gains full university status.
  • October: The Egg opens.
  • 2006 – 7 August: Thermae Bath Spa facility opens.
  • 2007
  • September: Bath Festival of Children's Literature begins.{{cite web|url=http://www.bathkidslitfest.co.uk/|title=Bath Festival of Children's Literature|access-date=2013-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011100850/http://bathkidslitfest.co.uk/|archive-date=2007-10-11}}
  • October: Bath Chronicle changes from daily to weekly publication.
  • 2008 – Beau Street Hoard found.
  • 2009 – Bath bus station and SouthGate shopping centre open.
  • 2011
  • April: city population recorded by the census is 88,859.{{cite web|title=Bath|url=http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/your-council-and-democracy/local-research-and-statistics/census-2011-our-local-population|publisher=BANES 2011 Census Ward Profiles|access-date=2 May 2015}}(Combined populations of the 16 wards that made-up the unparished area at the time of the 2011 census.)
  • October: Occupy Bath begins.
  • Construction of Bath Western Riverside residential development on former Stothert & Pitt crane factory site begins.
  • 2015
  • 9 February: A child and three adults are killed and four others seriously injured when a poorly maintained tipper truck runs away down Lansdown Lane into Weston.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-31321186 |title=Bath tipper truck crash kills child and three adults |work=BBC News |date=2015-02-09|access-date=2016-12-22}}
  • April: City of Bath College renamed Bath College.
  • 2021 – March: Clean Air Zone introduced in central Bath.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-66608299 |title=Bath air quality improves since introduction of clean air zone |last=Barltrop |first=Paul |work=BBC News |date=25 August 2023 |access-date=26 August 2023}}

Births

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See also

References

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Bibliography

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File:Christopher Anstey with his daughter by William Hoare.jpg, author of The New Bath Guide, with his daughter, painted by Bath resident artist William Hoare c.1777]]

=Published in 18th century=

  • {{cite book|title=New Bath Guide, or, Useful Pocket-Companion|year=c. 1765|location=Bath|publisher=Printed by C. Pope, for W. Taylor|url=https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200143/7808FF38D600EC417AE441802D1BDC0697D9767F.html}}
  • {{cite book|title=New Bath Guide, or, Useful Pocket-Companion|year=1789|edition=New|location=Bath|publisher=Printed by R. Cruttwell for W. Taylor|hdl=2027/hvd.hxjnl3}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=J. Dodsley|location=London|author=Christopher Anstey|title=New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family|url=https://archive.org/details/newbathguideorm00ansgoog|date=1766|edition=3rd|ol=16314966M|author-link=Christopher Anstey}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=J.F. and C. Rivington|date=1778|edition=8th|location=London|title=A Tour Through the Island of Great Britain|author1=Daniel Defoe|author2-link=Samuel Richardson|author2=Samuel Richardson|chapter=Bath|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/tourthroughislan02defo#page/224/mode/2up|author1-link=Daniel Defoe}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=Printed for the author|location=London|title=New Prose Bath Guide, for the Year 1778|author=Philip Thicknesse|author-link=Philip Thicknesse|date=1778|ol=23412268M}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=Printed by R. Cruttwell|location=Bath|author=John Collinson|title=History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset|date=1791|volume=1|chapter=Bath|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/historyantiqutit01colluoft#page/n107/mode/2up}}
  • {{cite book|title=New Bath Directory, for the Year, 1792|location=Bath|publisher=W. Gye|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xK0HAAAAQAAJ|year=1792}}
  • {{cite book|location=London|title=Topographical Survey of the Great Road from London to Bath and Bristol|author=Archibald Robertson|date=1792|oclc=1633468|chapter=Modern Bath|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/topographicalsur02robe#page/120/mode/2up|author-link=Archibald Robertson (painter)}}

=Published in 19th century=

== 1800s-1840s ==

  • {{cite book|title=History of Bath|author=Richard Warner|location=Bath|year=1801|oclc=5837002}}
  • {{cite book|title=Bath, illustrated by a series of views|author=John Claude Nattes|location=London|publisher=W. Miller and W. Sheppard|year=1806|oclc=32851779|author-link=John Claude Nattes}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=J. Harris|location=London|title=Beauties of England and Wales|author=Joseph Nightingale|date=1813|volume=13|number=1|chapter=Bath|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/beautiesofenglan1301brit#page/358/mode/2up|title-link=Beauties of England and Wales|author-link=Joseph Nightingale}}
  • {{cite book|title=Historic and Local New Bath Guide|location=Bath|publisher=C. Duffield|edition=4th|year=c. 1815|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SswHAAAAQAAJ}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=Meyler and Son|location=Bath|author=Pierce Egan|author-link=Pierce Egan|title=Walks Through Bath|url=https://archive.org/details/walksthroughbath00egan|date=1819|ol=7233349M}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=J. Robins and Co.|location=London|author=James Dugdale|title=New British Traveller|date=1819|volume=4|chapter=Somersetshire: Bath|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/newbritishtravel04dugduoft#page/n216/mode/1up}}
  • {{cite book|title=Gye's Bath Directory|year=1819|location=Bath|publisher=W. Gye|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TK4HAAAAQAAJ}}
  • {{cite book|chapter=Bath|volume=3|title=Bibliotheca Britannica|author=Robert Watt|location=Edinburgh|publisher=A. Constable|year=1824|oclc=961753 |author-link = Robert Watt (bibliographer)|hdl=2027/nyp.33433089888832}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=William Blackwood|date=1830|location=Edinburgh|title=Edinburgh Encyclopædia|editor=David Brewster|chapter=Bath|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/edinburghencyclo03edinuoft#page/333/mode/1up|title-link=Edinburgh Encyclopædia}}
  • {{cite book|location=London|publisher=James Wyld|title=Great Western Railway Guide|date=1839|oclc=12922212|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/greatwesternchel00wyld#page/163/mode/2up|chapter=Bath}}
  • {{cite book|author=Thomas Bartlett|title=New Tablet of Memory; or, Chronicle of Remarkable Events|year=1841|publisher=Thomas Kelly|location=London|chapter=Bath|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rJ9fAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA71}}
  • {{cite book|chapter=Bath|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/moggsgreatweste00mogggoog#page/n46/mode/2up|title=Mogg's Great Western Railway and Windsor, Bath, and Bristol Guide|date=1841|location=London|publisher=Edward Mogg}}
  • {{cite book |title=Hunt & Co.'s Directory & Court Guide for the Cities of Bath, Bristol, & Wells |year=1848 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyIOAAAAQAAJ |last1=And Co |first1=Hunt E. }}

== 1850s-1890s ==

  • {{cite book|title=Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland|year=1860|publisher=W.J. Adams|location=London|chapter=Bath|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qaNDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA18|title-link=Bradshaw's Guide}}
  • {{cite book|url=https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:aguidetoknowled00earlgoog/A_guide_to_the_knowledge_of_Bath_ancient_and_modern|title=A guide to the knowledge of Bath, ancient and modern|date=1864|publisher=Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green|author=John Earle|author-link=John Earle (professor)}}
  • {{cite book|title=Where Shall We Go?: A Guide to the Healthiest and Most Beautiful Watering Places in the British Islands|publisher=A. and C. Black|location=Edinburgh|year=1866|edition=4th|chapter=Bath (Somerset)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZRCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=William Tegg|location=London|title=Dictionary of Chronology|editor=William Henry Overall|date=1870|oclc=2613202|chapter=Bath, Somerset|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofchro00overiala#page/64/mode/1up}}
  • {{cite magazine |title=Some Literary Ramblings about Bath: III |magazine=Cornhill Magazine|volume=28|date=July 1873|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1IBHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA27|last1=Smith|first1=George|last2=Thackeray|first2=William Makepeace}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.|location=London|title=Rambles about Bath and its neighbourhood|url=https://archive.org/details/ramblesaboutbath01tuns|author=James Tunstall|edition=6th|date=1876|oclc=12987741|ol=6919886M}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=W. Satchell|location=London|title=Book of British Topography: a Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland|author=John Parker Anderson|date=1881|chapter=Somersetshire: Bath|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/bookofbritishtop00andeuoft#page/252/mode/1up}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.|location=London|title=Historic houses in Bath, and their associations|author=R. E. M. Peach|date=1883–1884|oclc=5463468|volume=2|ol=7096295M}} [https://archive.org/stream/historichousesin02peaciala#page/n5/mode/2up Archived].
  • {{cite book|title=Concise Guide to Bath|year=1885|location=Bath|publisher=R.B. Cater|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-qwHAAAAQAAJ}}
  • {{cite book|title=Bath, Old and New|author=R. E. M. Peach|year=1888|location=London |publisher=Simpkin, Marshall & Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EW1nAAAAMAAJ}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=I. Pitman and Sons|location=Bath|author=British Association for the Advancement of Science|editor=J. W. Morris|title=Handbook to Bath|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924031261609|date=1888|ol=19530108M}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=Bath Herald|author=J. G. Douglas Kerr|title=Popular Guide to the Use of the Bath Waters|date=1898|edition=12th|ol=14035086M}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=Tylee & Co.|location=Bath|title=Bijou Guide to Bath|url=https://archive.org/details/bijouguidetobath00bath|date=1890|oclc=12987828|ol=19368029M}}
  • {{cite book|title=Bibliography of British Municipal History|year=1897|location=New York|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co.|author=Charles Gross|chapter=Bath|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/bibliographyofbr00grosiala#page/162/mode/2up }}

=Published in 20th century=

  • {{cite book|publisher=Barnicott and Pearce|location=Taunton|title=Bibliotheca Somersetensis|author=Emanuel Green|date=1902|oclc=7080200|volume=1: Bath Books|url=https://archive.org/stream/bibliothecasome01greegoog#page/n7/mode/2up}}
  • {{cite book|title=Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881–1900|year=1902|editor=G. K. Fortescue |location=London |publisher=The Trustees |chapter-url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b5107011;view=1up;seq=244|chapter=Bath}}
  • {{cite book|publisher=Chronicle Office|location=Bath|author=William Tyte|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CqgAAAAMAAJ|title=Bath in the Eighteenth Century|date=1903}}
  • {{cite book|chapter=Bath|title=Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1908|editor=Robert Donald|location=London|publisher=Edward Lloyd|year=1908|hdl=2027/nyp.33433081995593}}
  • {{cite book|title=The Building of Bath 47-1947: an architectural and social study|author=Bryan Little|publisher=Collins|location=London|year=1947}}
  • {{cite book|title=The Georgian Buildings of Bath from 1700 to 1830|author=Walter Ison|publisher=Faber|location=London|year=1948}}
  • {{cite book|title=The benevolent man: a life of Ralph Allen of Bath|url=https://archive.org/details/benevolentmanlif0000boyc|url-access=registration|author=Benjamin Boyce|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, Mass.|year=1967}}
  • {{cite journal|title=Bath in the Eighteenth Century|journal=Apollo|location=London|date=November 1973}}
  • {{cite book|title=Vanishing Bath: buildings threatened and destroyed|author=Peter Coard|edition=3rd|publisher=Kingsmead Press|location=Bath|year=1973|isbn=0-901571-67-9}}
  • {{cite book|title=The Sack of Bath: a record and an indictment|author=Adam Fergusson|publisher=Compton Russell|location=Salisbury|year=1973|isbn=978-0-85955-002-4|author-link=Adam Fergusson (MEP)}}
  • {{cite book|title=The Sack of Bath and after |author=Adam Fergusson |author2=Tim Mowl|publisher=Compton Russell|location=Salisbury|year=1989|isbn=0-85955-161-X}}
  • {{cite book|title=Bath: an architectural guide|author=Charles Robertson|publisher=Faber|location=London|year=1975|isbn=0-571-10750-8}}
  • {{cite journal|title=Continuity and Change in Historic Cities: Bath, Chester, and Norwich|author=Larry R. Ford|journal=Geographical Review|volume=68|issue=3|pages=253–273|year=1978|jstor=215046|doi=10.2307/215046|bibcode=1978GeoRv..68..253F }}
  • {{cite book|title=Bath Portrait: the story of Bath, its life and its buildings|author=Bryan Little|edition=4th|publisher=Burleigh Press|location=Bristol|year=1980|isbn=0-902780-06-9}}
  • {{cite book|title=Bath 1680-1850: a social history|author=R. S. Neale|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|location=London|year=1981|isbn=978-0-7100-0639-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/bath16801850soci00neal}}
  • {{cite book|title=Genius of Bath: the city and its landscape|author=Christopher Pound|publisher=Millstream|location=Bath|year=1981|isbn=978-0-948975-01-1}}
  • {{cite book|title=The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath |volume=1: The site|editor=Barry Cunliffe |editor2=Peter Davenport|publisher=Oxford University Committee for Archaeology|series=Monograph 7|year=1985|isbn=0-947816-07-0}}
  • {{cite book|title=The City of Bath|author=Barry Cunliffe|publisher=Alan Sutton|location=Gloucester|year=1986|isbn=0-86299-297-4}}
  • {{cite book|title=John Wood: architect of obsession |author=Tim Mowl |author2=Brian Earnshaw|publisher=Millstream Books|location=Bath|year=1988|isbn=978-0-948975-13-4}}
  • {{cite book|title=Archaeology in Bath 1976–1985|editor=Peter Davenport|publisher=Oxford University Committee for Archaeology|series=Monograph 28|year=1989|isbn=0-947816-28-3}}
  • {{cite book|title=Hot Springs of Bath|editor=G. A. Kellaway|publisher=Bath City Council|year=1991|isbn=978-0-901303-25-7}}
  • {{cite book|title=Archaeology in Bath: excavations 1984–1989|author=Peter Davenport|publisher=Archaeopress|location=Oxford|series=BAR British series 284|year=1999|isbn=1-84171-007-5}}
  • {{cite book|title=Image of Georgian Bath, 1700–2000|author=Peter Borsay|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2000|isbn=0-19-820265-2}}
  • {{cite book|title=Roman Bath Discovered|author=Barry Cunliffe|edition=3rd|publisher=Tempus|location=Stroud|year=2000|isbn=0-7524-1902-1|author-link=Barry Cunliffe}}

=Published in 21st century=

  • {{cite book|title=Medieval Bath uncovered|author=Peter Davenport|publisher=Tempus|location=Stroud|year=2002|isbn=0-7524-1965-X}}
  • {{cite book|series=Pevsner Architectural Guides|title=Bath|author=Michael Forsyth|year=2003|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven|isbn=978-0-300-10177-5}}
  • {{cite book|title=Stuart Bath: Life in the forgotten city, 1603–1714|author=John Wroughton|year=2004|publisher=Lansdown Press|location=Bath|isbn=0-9520249-5-0}}
  • {{cite journal|title=Myth, Memory, and Place: Monmouth and Bath 1750–1900|author=Peter Borsay|journal=Journal of Social History|volume=39|issue=3|pages=867–889|year=2006|jstor=3790298|doi=10.1353/jsh.2006.0001|s2cid=144152506 }}
  • {{cite book|title=Tudor Bath: Life and strife in the little city, 1485–1603|author=John Wroughton|year=2006|publisher=Lansdown Press|location=Bath|isbn=0-9520249-6-9}}
  • {{cite book|title=Innovation and discovery: Bath and the rise of science|editor=Peter Wallis|publisher=Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution; William Herschel Society|year=2008|isbn=978-0-948975-82-0}}
  • {{cite book|title=Bath – City on Show|author=Cathryn Spence|location=Brimscombe Port|publisher=The History Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-7524-5674-4}}
  • {{cite book|title=Bath in the Blitz: Then & Now in colour|author=Dan Brown & Cathryn Spence|year=2012|publisher=The History Press|location=Brimscombe Port|isbn=978-0-7524-6639-2}}
  • {{cite book|title=Douched and Doctored: thermal springs, spa doctors and rheumatic diseases|author=Roger Rolls|publisher=London Publishing Partnership|year=2012|isbn=978-1-907994-09-8}}
  • {{cite book|title=Water, History & Style – Bath: World Heritage Site|author=Cathryn Spence|location=Brimscombe Port|publisher=The History Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0-7524-8814-1}}
  • {{cite book|title=The Classical Buildings of Bath|author=Mike Jenner|location=Bristol|publisher=Redcliffe|year=2013|isbn=978-1-908326-03-4}}

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  • {{citation|work=Historical Directories|publisher=University of Leicester|location=UK|title=Somerset|url=http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/findbylocation.asp}}. Includes Bath directories, various dates.
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/libraries-and-archives/local-studies|title=Libraries and Archives: Local studies|publisher=Bath & North East Somerset Council}}
  • [http://www.mayorofbath.co.uk/noteworthy-mayors List of Mayors of Bath], 1230-

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