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Dist:0.1km<br/>The Royal School, for the daughters of army officers, was originally on this site. In 1998 it merged with Bath High School to form the Royal High School. The main school building can be seen behind this elaborate gateway.
©Virginia Knight
Dist:0.2km<br/>The school was founded by John Wesley.
©Virginia Knight
Dist:0.2km<br/>Britain's 95 Superhome, part of a network of exemplar, old dwellings which have undergone an energy-efficiency retrofit, visit www.superhomes.org.uk for further details
©Nick Sandy
Dist:0.2km<br/>This road is unadopted. Rather than being resurfaced and becoming a short-cut for parents at nearby Kingswood School, it has been allowed to deteriorate into something resembling a war zone. Only the most rugged of vehicles can now pass along it and it can only be a matter of time before the Post Office refuses to deliver to properties here, as it has done elsewhere in similar cases. One solution would be for the Council to take over all the land that is not required for access and sell it with planning permission to a developer, since it's clear that local residents don't need or want a thoroughfare here. As property prices in this area are among the highest in Bath, this might prove quite lucrative.
©Virginia Knight
Dist:0.2km<br/>The front of the main school building, with battlements to puzzle future archaeologists. Note the wooden sculpture of a squirrel under the tree on the left. http://www.kingswood.bath.sch.uk/
©Virginia Knight
Dist:0.3km<br/>The metal sign informing passers-by that they are one mile from the Guildhall in Bath was put up two days before this photograph was taken, over a weathered milestone.
©Virginia Knight
Dist:0.4km<br/>Near Kingswood School on the Lansdown Road, looking south-east toward Bath from the junction with Fonthill Road. The left turning on the far side of the road is into Van Diemen's Lane.
©Colin S Pearson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Narrow leafy lanes such as this can be found in several places near the centre of Bath.
©Virginia Knight
Dist:0.4km<br/>Folly tower in the grounds of Kingswood College
©Paul Brooker
Dist:0.5km<br/>St.Stephen's Church is on the right. Nearly half way up the hill to Lansdown, the steepest part is done but sill a good way to go so step out and look out for the traffic.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km<br/>This crescent - sometimes used as a backdrop in adverts - is much less visited than the Royal Crescent. There are often sheep grazing on the lawn in front of it.
©Virginia Knight
Dist:0.5km<br/>Repairs are done, the scaffolding gone and the masons away to their homes and families leaving the church tower standing in all its glory. A welcome sight of one of the jewels in Bath's crown.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.5km<br/>A novel approach to illumination at St Stephen's church, Bath. Maybe you can see the light of the Lord?
©Neil Owen
Dist:0.5km<br/>The church tower, a landmark on Bath's skyline, is under repair and the subject of an appeal.
©Virginia Knight
Dist:0.6km<br/>The famous history and architecture scholar Nicholas Pevsner remarked on this church as being "very pinnacled". However he perhaps knew little of the troubled early years when funding debts threatened. But once cleared the tower now looks over the city of Bath from a lofty position. See http://www.ststephensbath.org.uk/architecture.php?page=History for a more in-depth history. See for the 1GL boltmark, which was cut just a few years after the church was constructed.
©Neil Owen

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