“Chauffeur Driven To The Ancient Roman Spa at Bath”
Berkeley Chauffeurs chauffeured tour of bath is one of our most popular sightseeing tours customers really enjoy this beautiful city and they arrive in style in one of our luxury chauffeur driven cars.
Bath has a wealth of history with the Roman Spa to the lovely Bath Abbey to the many museums and wonderful buildings that make up the enchanting city of Bath. Why not relax in style and view all these places at your own pace in a luxury chauffeured car, Berkeley Chauffeurs have years of experience taking customers all over the UK to various places including the beautiful Royal City of Bath. If you would like to be chauffeur driven in luxury to Bath then either give us a call or contact us by clicking the contact button below.
History of Bath
The Romans built a temple at Bath in 50 AD and also built public baths being supplied by the hot springs. After the Romans Bath went into decline until the Saxons ruled in the 9th century Alfred the Great made Bath one of his many fortified towns to help defend against attackers like the Danes.
Bath started to flourish in the 10th century it already had a mint and the first king of England was crowned in Bath in 973 King Edgar. During a rebellion in Bath in 1088 the monastery was burnt down but Bath recovered in time were great Abbeys were built in Wells and in Bath also during the middle ages people came to Bath to cure themselves in the hot springs. The main industry in Bath at this time was the manufacture of woollen cloth.
Turbulent times hit Bath in the 16th and 17th centuries Henry the V111 Closed the abbey the woollen trade declined and bath was hit with civil war. Bath also suffered from the plague but people kept coming in hope of a cure and in the late 17th century Bath started bottling the water from the springs and selling it.
Bath started to prosper in the 18th century were grand building arose all over design by the top architects of the day the streets were paved and street lighting installed and a hospital was built. Bath was a fine place for the rich with many great buildings and activities but it also had many poor living in squalor and overcrowding.
During the 19th century Bath had a population of 33,000 it grew but was not an important town like some of the towns which started industries and grew faster than Bath.
Being still a small market town Bath still managed to pull in the shoppers and tourists and with the opening of the canal and railways Bath was easier to get to but an outbreak of cholera which hit most cities in the 19th century came to Bath in 1849.
Things did improve and from around 1880 the old Roman baths were uncovered and electric street lighting installed in 1890 and the streets were full of horse drawn trams.
The 20th century saw Bath grow to approx 65,000 and the horse drawn trams were replaced by electric trams and in 1939 they were replaced by buses
.Bath was bombed during the war 1,500 buildings destroyed and 21 souls lost their lives. During the sixties and seventies museums were built and Bath University was founded and in 1987 Bath became a World Heritage Site.
Today Bath has approx 85,000 inhabitants and has a thriving tourism industry with the opening of the new spa in 2006 and magnificent hotels and restaurants with plenty of good shops and activities to see like the farmers market.
