Prior Park College

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.

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Type: School
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Description: school in Bath and North East Somerset, UK
Address: Ralph Allen Drive, Bath, BA2 5AH

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Prior Park and Prior Park Landscape Garden.

Prior Park

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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. Prior Park is situated 730 feet northwest of Prior Park College.

Prior Park Landscape Garden

Garden

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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 1,100 feet north of Prior Park College.

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 College.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Combe Down and Claverton Down.

Combe Down

Suburb

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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.

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.

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.

Prior Park College

Categories: public school, independent school, boarding school, and education
Location: Bath and North East Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.3649° or 51° 21′ 54″ north

Longitude

-2.34283° or 2° 20′ 34″ west

Operator

The Prior Foundation

Open location code

9C3V9M74+XV

OpenStreetMap ID

way 377648910

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=school

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=roman_catholic

Wikidata ID

Q7245413

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In Other Languages

From French to Ukrainian—“Prior Park College” goes by many names.

French: “Prior Park College”
Swedish: “Prior Park College”
Ukrainian: “Коледж Пріор-Парк”

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