Looking across the River Avon towards Bath's medieval abbey.

Another view of Bath Abbey. Built between 12th and 16th Centuries, it was the last great medieval church built in England.

The Gothic style west portal of the abbey.

This is the Circus: three identical buildings forming a ring around a roundabout. They were completed in 1768, one of Bath's many examples of fine Georgian architecture. Circus, it should be remembered, means circle in Latin.

The Georgian Guildhall built of Bath stone and completed some little time after the Circus, in 1778. It has since been expanded and now serves as Bath's Council Chamber.

Traffic and pedestrians ply Broad Street.

The magnificent Royal Crescent. Designed by the famous architect John Wood the Younger, these buildings were completed in 1774. The apartments are still widely admired today and the crescent in a Google poll this street was ranked as the beautiful in the United Kingdom.

Carriages whisk the affluent residents of the recently built Crescent off to town.

Sometimes the River Avon floods, and sometimes the waters rise well into the city. Here we see Southgate swamped in water. All the buildings are gone and have since been replaced by shopping complexes built from bath stone.

Saint Michael's Church on Northgate. Today the view is somewhat obstructed by necessary renovations.