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Gothic Bath Walking Tour
Bath

From Mary Shelley's haunting manuscript to William Beckford's eccentric folly, trace Bath's surprisingly dark and Gothic literary history.

6 stops · 4.8 km

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Every Stop Has a Story

A museum in a Georgian townhouse that tells how a teenage Mary Shelley came to write Frankenstein while living in Bath.

The spot where Mary Shelley's lodgings stood, and where much of Frankenstein was written in 1816 and 1817.

A church rebuilt after a bishop's dream of angels, whose floor began to sink as the bodies beneath it decayed.

One of only four bridges in the world lined with shops along its full length, where Javert meets his end in Les Misérables.

The 154-foot tower that William Beckford, author of the Gothic novel Vathek, built as a private retreat for his treasures.

The burial ground around Beckford's Tower, where Beckford lies in the pink granite tomb he designed for himself.