With a very central location right in the heart of Bath, this newly renovated accommodation…
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The first letter sent with a stamp was sent from Bath, and this museum helps you to discover how 18th-century Bath influenced and developed the Postal System, including the story of the Penny Post. Visitors can explore the history of written communication from ancient Egyptian clay tablets, to the first Airmail flight from Bath to London in 1912. See the Victorian Post Office and watch continuous video films including the in-house production entitled 'History of Writing'. The museum is full of hands-on and interactive features to engage the whole family.
Facilities – at a glance
Suitable for all child ages
Fully accessible
Features
- Suitable for children of all ages
- Parking nearby
- Fully accessible
- Facilities: Films and computer games for hearing impaired
- Accessible toilets
- Open all year
- Opening Times: Open all year, Mon-Tue 11-5, Thu-Sat 2-5 (last admission 4.30)
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About the area
Discover Somerset
Somerset means ‘summer pastures’ – appropriate given that so much of this county remains rural and unspoiled. Ever popular areas to visit are the limestone and red sandstone Mendip Hills rising to over 1,000 feet, and by complete contrast, to the south and southwest, the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels. Descend to the Somerset Levels, an evocative lowland landscape that was the setting for the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. In the depths of winter this is a desolate place and famously prone to extensive flooding. There is also a palpable sense of the distant past among these fields and scattered communities. It is claimed that Alfred the Great retreated here after his defeat by the Danes.
Away from the flat country are the Quantocks, once the haunt of poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. The Quantocks are noted for their gentle slopes, heather-covered moorland expanses and red deer. From the summit, the Bristol Channel is visible where it meets the Severn Estuary. So much of this hilly landscape has a timeless quality about it and large areas have hardly changed since Coleridge and Wordsworth’s day.
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