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The Royal Crescent has to be the finest of all Bath Hotels for its uniquely magnificent location, its beautiful secret gardens, its fabulous spa, its renowned restaurant and the luxuriously wonderful accommodation.
Begun in 1767 by John Wood the Younger, the crescent took eight years to complete and included some of the grandest houses in Bath. John Wood was utterly determined that his masterpiece should present a prospect of total uniformity and understated gracefulness, his sweeping vision and scrupulous attention to every detail has created a great elliptical curve almost fifty feet high and five hundred feet long that comprises thirty houses of grand proportions.
Such harmony, restraint and elegance, plus the gently sloping sweep of grass that stretches before it, always has the same effect ? whether you are seeing the crescent for the very first time, or for the hundredth, it is a sight that never fails to draw a gasp of amazement. When the famous literary hostess, Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, came to live at No.16 in 1780 she declared that ?The beautiful situation of the Crescent cannot be understood by any comparison with anything in any town whatsoever.? Over two centuries later it is hard to see how any sensible observer could reasonably challenge this bold claim.
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