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Bath
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Definition:a historic Roman and Georgian spa city [...] situated 100 miles (260 km) west of London and 15 miles (25 km) south-east of the nearest big city, Bristol. Bath is famous for its hot springs, Roman period baths, Medieval heritage and stately Georgian architecture. Set in the rolling Somerset countryside on the southern edge of the Cotswolds, Bath (over population 80,000) offers a diverse range of attractions for its 4.4 million visitors each year: restaurants, theatres, cinemas, pubs and nightclubs, along with interesting museums, and a wide range of guided tours.[It] is among the oldest of England’s principal tourist destinations and has been welcoming visitors for centuries. The three hot springs within the city were sacred to the Celtic goddess Sulis, whom the Romans later identified with the goddess Minervatext from wikivoyage, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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"Bath." She shrugged. "It's seen better days. The quality used to come here for the season and take the waters and marry off their daughters and gamble. Now it's mostly tourists. It's a little like living in a museum. [...]"
Irwin Shaw. Beggarman, Thief, p.299 (1977)
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"And the people of Bath," continued Cain, "never need to light their fires except as a luxury, for the water springs up out of the earth ready boiled for use."
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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Lydia was occasionally a visitor there, when her husband was gone to enjoy himself in London or Bath;
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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The Square, though irregular, is, on the whole, pretty well laid out, spacious, open, and airy; and, in my opinion, by far the most wholesome and agreeable situation in Bath, especially the upper side of it; but the avenues to it are mean, dirty, dangerous, and indirect. Its communication with the Baths, is through the yard of an inn, where the poor trembling valetudinarian is carried in a chair, betwixt the heels of a double row of horses,
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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