Garston Cottage Bed & Breakfast - Bathford, South West

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Garston Cottage

Owner: Address: 28 Ashley Road, Bathford, Bath, Somerset Bathford, South West , BA1 7TT Phone: 1225852510 Fax: 01225 852793		Email Innkeeper: garstoncot@aol.com Direct link to the web site: http://www.garstoncottage.freeservers.com Review B&B: Review and Vote this Inn

Inn Amenities

The cottage is circa 1820 and has recently been renovated to provide the following facilities in all rooms:

T.V.
H &C Water
Central Heating
Tea & Coffee making facilities
Shaver Point
Hair Dryer

Toilet and Shower en-suit in some rooms. We have a Games Room with Pool Table, Darts etc and an outdoor Spa Pool, heated all year.

Area Activities

Quick walking tour of Bath
Here's a one-hour tour of the essentials for you to print out and bring with you to Bath: Royal Crescent and the Circus, the Abbey and the Pump Rooms, a whiff of local colour, and some lovely views.

Start from the Abbey Churchyard.
1. The Pump Rooms - Face the front of the Abbey; the entrance to the Pump Rooms is on your right. If you're in a hurry you won't have time to visit the Roman Baths, but you can spend five minutes inside the Pump Room listening to the live salon music and sipping a cup of water pumped up from the spring. They sell it at the far side of the Pump Room from a little counter for 45 pence. Do not attempt to send it back when you suspect it is harbouring the remains of Jane Austen's dog; it's supposed to taste like that.

2. The Abbey - Come back out into Abbey Churchyard and face the front of the Abbey. There's been a church on this site for at least a thousand years, but the present one is 'only' 500 years old, celebrating its half-millennium in 1999. The carvings on the front show the dream of Bishop Oliver King who had it built (the last Tudor church in Britain before the Reformation). Angels climbed up and down a ladder to heaven in his vision, but the only way the stonemasons could distinguish between those upwardly and downwardly mobile was to make the ones descending do it head-first. The Bish also saw an olive surrounded by a crown in his vision, denoting his name, and this appears on the Abbey front too. There are no olive groves in Bath by the way.

Spend a few minutes inside the wonderful Abbey, but don't try to find where the person who called it the 'Lantern of the West' must have stood to see it that way. If you do you'll be there all day.

Facing the front of the Abbey, walk along past the left hand side, pausing to see the inscription on the statue of the woman holding pot of water. The rather uninspiring inscription is from Greek writer Pindar: 'Ariston men hydor', 'Water is best'. Obviously Pindar never tried a pint of Royal Oak.

Walk across to the Guildhall in front and on your left.

3. Guildhall Market - The entrance to the Guildhall Market is clearly marked. It's a small local market with the old table, or 'nail', on which transactions were made - hence the term 'cash on the nail'. Walk through the market and out the back entrance. Cross the road to the balustrade, being keeping your distance from the open-top tourist buses: you're in no danger of being run over, but the guides' jokes are worth staying out of earshot for.

4. Pulteney Bridge - The word-famous bridge, with its elegant horseshoe-shaped weir. Spend a few minutes enjoying the magnificent views of the bridge and weir, the river sprawling away to your right, the hills in the distance. What you see up on the hill at about one o'clock is Sham Castle (a folly façade) while at three o'clock in the distance is Prior Park, once the home of Bath entrepreneur Ralph Allen.

Now walk onto the bridge itself. It

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