England’s best city within two hours of London is beautiful, historic Bath. The city is popular and expensive, but a delight ...

and a gore-filled basement to explore. Not suitable for children under 12. Insider’s tip: The house where Mary Shelley lived in Bath 1816-1817 – 5 Abbey Church Yard – is no longer there.

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath was established as a military order by Letters Patent of George I on 18th May 1725, when the Dean of Westminster was made Dean of the Order in perpetuity and King ...

Bath later prospered as a wool town, building its grand abbey about 500 years ago — the last great medieval church built in England. The abbey’s facade features a very literal Jacob’s Ladder ...