Find out how to visit the Strand Lane 'Roman' Baths in London. Visits to these fascinating historic baths must be booked in advance. The Roman Baths site is owned by Bath & North East Somerset Council.
National Trust and English Heritage members are not entitled to free entry. The Roman bath is an archaeological puzzle, as it may actually date from Tudor times. The bath can be viewed for free via a grill from the path all year round.
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from 9:00. The Strand Lane Baths, at 5 Strand Lane, London WC2R 2NA, have been reputed since the 1830s to be a Roman survival. They are in fact the remaining portion of a cistern built in 1612 to feed a fountain in the gardens of the old Somerset House, then a royal place.
After a long period of neglect and decay, following the demolition of the fountain, they were brought back into use in the 1770s as a. The 1.3 metre deep bath passed through a couple of different hands in the ensuing decades including Oxford Street draper Henry Glave and Rev William Pennington Bickford, the Rector of St Clement Danes, who, believing in the bath's Roman origins, hoped to turn them into a tourist attraction. Letocetum is the ancient remains of a Roman settlement.
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It was an important military staging post and posting station near the junction of Watling Street, the Roman military road to north Wales, and Icknield (or Ryknild) Street (now the A38). The site is now within the parish of Wall, Staffordshire, England. It is owned and run by the National Trust, under the name Letocetum Roman Baths Site.
The official website for the Roman Baths museum, 2,000 years of history are waiting for you to discover and explore. Unearth ancient Roman history with your family at these places, which are steeped in Roman history. The Roman Baths is designated as an outstanding collection.
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This accreditation is used by the national agency for creativity and culture, Arts Council England, to recognise collections that are not held in national museums but are nevertheless of national and international significance. The bath was bought for £500, by the Rector of St Clement Danes, the Rev. William Pennington Bickford, who, along with his allies, the journalist and historical writer Edward Foord and the graphic artist Fortunino Matania, was the last of the great believers in its Roman origins.
