‘To see all Bath and for All Bath to See’
Author: © Carolyn McDowall 2009
Roman Bath at Bath, England
The city of Bath, in the West Country of England has long been renowned for its curative medicinal springs.
During Roman times, and indeed up until about the year 400, it was a thriving town named Aquae Sulis.
Throughout the medieval period it was little more than a market town largely dominated by the Church.
It was not until the fifteenth century when King Henry V111 came to see Bath for himself that the therapeutic value of the waters became, once again, well known and people came to be cured. At the turn of the eighteenth century Queen Anne, whose health had greatly suffered from countless failed pregnancies visited. She was seeking rejuvenation through the medicinal waters at Bath.
It would become a centre for fashionable people following the arrival of Richard ‘Beau’ Nash in 1702. Born at Swansea in Wales in 1674 Nash following an unsuccessful career in the army had become a professional gamester. It was in this capacity he came to Bath, hoping for rich pickings.
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