Bath Attractions

Wookey Hole Caves is a show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the S edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England. The Caves are a popular attraction for visitors from the nearby tourist cities of Bath, Bristol and Western Supermare. Wookey Hole cave are believed to have been occupied by himans for 50,000 years and were naturally formed through erosion of the limestone hills by the River Axe of millions of years. Before emerging at Wookey Hole the water enters underground streams and passes through other caves such as Swildon's Hole and St Cuthbert's Swallet. The cave is noted for the Witch of Wookey Hole – a roughly human shaped rock outcrop that has been turned into a tourist attraction with a resident actor Witch that is employed at the site. It is also the site of the first cave dives in Britain.

In close proximity to the tourist cities of Bath & Bristol lies Cheddar Gorge and Caves, a limestone gorge and in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar in the country of Somerset. The gorge is also the site of the Cheddar caves, where Britain's oldest complete human skeleton referred to as Cheddar Man (estimated to be 9,000 years old), was found in 1903. Older remains from the Palaeolithic era (12,000–13,000 years ago) have also been found. The caves have been produced by the activity of an underground river which contain stalactites and stalagmites. Cheddar Gorge, including the caves and other attractions, has become a popular tourist destination. The gorge attracts about 500,000 visitors per year.

The Roman Baths and Pump Room complex is a site of historical interest and museum of sorts in the English city of Bath. The house is a well-preserved Roman site for public bathing. The Baths themselves are below the modern street level and feature 4 main features: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House and the Museum holding artefacts and finds from Roman Baths. The buildings above street level date from the 19th century. The Baths are a major tourist attraction and, together with the Grand Pump Room, receive more than 1 million visitors a year, with 1,037,518 people during 2009. Visitors can see the Baths and Museum but cannot enter the water. Audio guides are available in several languages.

Westonbirt Arboretum is an arboretum near Tetbury in Gloucestershire and easily accessible from the popular tourist destinations of Bristol and Bath. Perhaps the most important and widely known arboretum in the United Kingdom, Westonbirt is around 600 acres comprising of some 18,000 trees and shrubs with a variety of wildlife inhabiting the area. Now owned by the Forestry commission, Westonbirt was planted in the heyday of Victorian plant hunting in the mid-nineteenth century, today Westonbirt is one of the finest tree collections in the world, carefully laid out within a beautiful Grade One listed historic landscape. There are two main areas to explore. The Old Arboretum is a carefully designed landscape offering beautiful vistas, stately avenues, and a host of rare and exotic trees from across the globe dating back to the 1850s. Silk Wood is a very different experience. Al...

The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Bath, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is an Anglican parish church and a former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries, it is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country. The church is cruciform in plan, seating approximately 1,200 people. It is used for religious services, secular civic ceremonies, concerts and lectures. The abbey is a Grade I listed building and is an active place of worship, with hundreds of congregation members and hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. The building contains monuments to several notable people. It has two organs and a peal of ten bells

Pulteney Bridge is a bridge that crosses the River Avon, in Bath, England. It was completed in 1773 and is designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building. The bridge was designed by Robert Adam, whose working drawings are preserved in the Sir John Soane's Museum, and is one of only four bridges in the world with shops across the full span on both sides. Shops on the bridge include a flower shop, antique map shop, and juice bar. The bridge overlooks the impressive Pulteney Weir and tourist trips by boat leave from the Weir during summer months.