Ralph Allen School

Ralph Allen School in Combe Down, Bath, England, is a co-educational, comprehensive secondary school with academy status. Located on the south-eastern edge of Bath, the school educates 11 to 18-year-olds from Bath and the surrounding area.

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Type: School
Description: school in Bath and North East Somerset, UK
Postal code: BA2 7AD

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Michael’s Church, Monkton Combe and Prior Park Landscape Garden.

St Michael’s Church, Monkton Combe

Church

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St Michael's Church is the Church of England parish church of Monkton Combe, Somerset, England. It was also the parish church of Combe Down until the 1850s when the communities separated. It is a Grade II listed building. St Michael’s Church, Monkton Combe is situated 2,500 feet south of Ralph Allen School.

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 3,800 feet northwest of Ralph Allen School.

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. Prior Park is situated 3,700 feet west of Ralph Allen School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Monkton Combe and Claverton Down.

Monkton Combe

Village

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Monkton Combe is a village and civil parish in north Somerset, England, 3 miles south of Bath. The parish, which includes the hamlet of Tucking Mill, had a population of 554 in 2013.

Claverton Down

Suburb

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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.

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.