The hot mineral waters that rise in Bath, unique in Britain, provide a continuing theme in the city’s development from prehistoric times to the present.  We visit the museum housing the Roman baths and temple precinct built beside the sacred spring, take a tour of the elegant honey-coloured ‘Bath stone’ 18th century Georgian crescents and squares, brought to life in Jane Austen’s novels, and hear the story of fashionable eighteenth century Bath’s heyday.  You may be able to squeeze in a visit to the Jane Austen Centre or enjoy a bit of shopping and soak up the beauty and atmosphere of this lovely city before driving to Castle Combe at the southern end of the Cotswold Hills.  The medieval woollen industry made the Cotswolds rich, funding the development of the many beautiful limestone villages like Castle Combe for which the Cotswolds are famous.

PRICES

from London  – 9 hours

£620 – 1-3 people

£645 – 4-6 people