Prior Park
Prior Park is a Neo-Palladian house that was designed by John Wood, the Elder, and built in the 1730s and 1740s for Ralph Allen on a hill overlooking Bath, Somerset, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: grade I listed Palladian building in south west England
- Address: Ralph Allen Drive, Bath, BA2 5AH
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Prior Park Landscape Garden and Prior Park College.
Prior Park Landscape Garden
Garden
Prior Park Landscape Garden surrounding the Prior Park estate south of Bath, Somerset, England, was designed in the 18th century by the poet Alexander Pope and the landscape gardener Capability Brown, and is now owned by the National Trust. Prior Park Landscape Garden is situated 390 feet north of Prior Park.
Prior Park College
School
Photo: Agadant, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prior Park College is a co-educational public school for both boarding and day pupils in Bath, south-west England. Its main building, Prior Park, stands on a hill overlooking the city and is a Grade I listed building. Prior Park College is situated 730 feet southeast of Prior Park.
Bath Spa Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bath Spa railway station is the principal station serving the city of Bath in Somerset, England. It is on the Great Western Main Line, 106 miles 71 chains down the line from the zero point at London Paddington between Chippenham to the east and Oldfield Park to the west. Bath Spa Railway Station is situated 1 mile northwest of Prior Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Combe Down and Lyncombe.
Combe Down
Suburb
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Combe Down is a village on the outskirts of Bath, England, in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority area, within the ceremonial county of Somerset.
Lyncombe
Suburb
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lyncombe is a district and electoral ward in Bath, Somerset, and a former parish in the Diocese of Bath and Wells. In the mid-19th century the parish was formed when the parish of Widcombe and Lyncombe was split in two, but it was abolished in the late 1960s.
Claverton Down
Suburb
Photo: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Claverton Down is a suburb on the south-east hilltop edge of Bath, Somerset, England. It is linked to the Bathwick area of the city by Bathwick Hill. Primarily a rural area with relatively few houses, it is home to the University of Bath, the headquarters of Wessex Water and a private golf course, the Bath Golf Course.
Prior Park
- Categories: house, school building, and tourism
- Location: Bath and North East Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.36662° or 51° 21′ 60″ northLongitude
-2.34451° or 2° 20′ 40″ westOperator
National TrustOpen location code
9C3V9M84+J5OpenStreetMap ID
node 27523975OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedWikidata ID
Q7245410
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In Other Languages
From German to Italian—“Prior Park” goes by many names.
- German: “Prior Park”
- Italian: “Prior Park”
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