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4 July 2013

Cross Pulteney Bridge, Bath

A beautiful bridge built to connect the ancient city of Bath with the newly built Georgian town of Bathwick on the other side of the River Avon, Pulteney Bridge was completed in the 1770s and designed by Robert Adam.


The bridge still has rows of shops running across it and is one of only a handful of such bridges, and was named after Frances Pulteney, an heiress to the estates of the Earl of Bath who married William Johnstone, a Scottish Lawyer and Member of Parliament, who took his wife's name to become William Pulteney and had the bridge built to connect to the property in Bathwick which helped to build his fortune.

For more, see http://visitbath.co.uk/things-to-do/attractions/pulteney-bridge-p56151

^Picture © Martin Pettitt used under a Creative Commons license^

2 comments:

  1. Hels4 July 2013 at 10:04

    The Ponte Vecchio in Florence is an amazing experience for anyone who has never seen shops on a bridge before. And here we have a really beautifully designed bridge, with shops, in Bath. Well done, Adam; well done Pulteney family!

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  2. Lisa Hirsch4 July 2013 at 16:56

    Bath is such a lovely city! If I'm recalling this correctly, there's a beautiful mosaic by the river near the bridge, and Bath Abbey is right near one end of the bridge.

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