Topping & Company

Bath


Just as a bookshop should be: enthusiastic staff, free tea and coffee, and 50,000 volumes on shelves so tall you need to shimmy up rolling library ladders to reach the top. There's also a great programme of author events.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Bath attractions

1. Museum of Bath Architecture

0.11 MILES

The stories behind the building of Bath's most striking structures are explored here, using antique tools, displays on Georgian construction methods and a…

2. Fashion Museum

0.11 MILES

The world-class collections on display in this museum, within the basement of the city's Georgian Assembly Rooms, include costumes from the 17th to late…

3. Bath Assembly Rooms

0.12 MILES

When they opened in 1771, the city's stately Assembly Rooms were where fashionable Bath socialites gathered to waltz, play cards and listen to the latest…

4. Jane Austen Centre

0.14 MILES

Bath is known to many as a location in Jane Austen's novels, including Persuasion and Northanger Abbey. Although Austen lived in Bath for only five years,…

5. The Circus

0.17 MILES

The Circus is a Georgian masterpiece. Built to John Wood the Elder's design and completed in 1768, it's said to have been inspired by the Colosseum in…

6. Pulteney Bridge

0.19 MILES

Elegant Pulteney Bridge has spanned the River Avon since the late 18th century and continues to be a much-loved and much-photographed Bath landmark (the…

7. Georgian Garden

0.19 MILES

These tiny, walled gardens feature period plants and gravel walkways. They've been carefully restored and provide an intriguing insight into what would…

8. Victoria Art Gallery

0.19 MILES

Bath's second-most-visited museum has collections that include everything from Turner and Gainsborough to contemporary art. The programme of temporary…