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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Bath city (1991 pop. 84,283), Bath and North East Somerset, SW England, in the Avon River valley. Britain's leading winter resort, Bath has the only natural hot springs in the country. Engineering, printing, bookbinding, wool-weaving, and clothing are among Bath's industries. In the 1st cent. AD, the Romans discovered the natural springs and named the site Aquae Solis ( "waters of the sun" ). They then built elaborate lead-lined baths with heating and cooling systems (first excavated in 1755). In Saxon times the city was destroyed and the baths buried. From the time of Chaucer until... Read more

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Bath Roman The Roman settlement of Aquae Sulis developed where...the floor of the Avon valley. Chief of these is the King's Bath Spring which delivers nearly 250,000 gallons of water a day...Also within the Roman site were the far smaller Hetlin (Hot Bath) and Cross Bath Springs. Late Iron Age coins ... Read more

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Bath The Roman settlement of Aquae Sulis developed where a number...the floor of the Avon valley. Chief of these is the King's Bath Spring which delivers nearly 250,000 gallons of water a day...x2010;Roman veneration. The religious and thermal precinct at Bath is the earliest and grandest Roman civil ... Read more

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	Bath in Europe ; 1996/7 Heineken CUP Pool 1: Bath 55 Edinburgh 26, Pontypridd 19 Bath 6, Bath 25 Dax 16, Treviso 27 Bath 50. Quarter-finals: Cardiff 22 Bath 19 Winners: Brive 1997/8 - HEINEKEN CUP Pool 3: Pontypridd 15 Bath 21, Borders 17 Bath 31, Bath 27 Brive 25... Read more
	Bath show commitment to their cause ; Bath will undoubtedly play better and lose at some point this...for the first quarter of this Guinness Premiership contest, Bath led 12-0 before a slack 40-minute spell in the middle allowed...having to do much. But it was the final quarter in which Bath delivered the goods, Shaun Berne kicking them back in ... Read more
	Bath made to work for bonus-point win ; Bath Rugby belied their early-season form and seemingly left the...Cup whipping boys Overmach Parma. Steve Meehan and a strong Bath side which saw South African half- backs Michael Claassens...bonus-point win. Unfortunately, virtually from the kick-off, Bath played the game as if they had begun the contest ... Read more
	Why Bath is now a family affair ; Bath has been linked to tourism since the city was created. Hundreds...before the Romans stomped into what would eventually become Bath, King Bladud is reputed to have taken a dip in mud heated...And ever since that fateful submersion, in about 500BC, Bath has attracted visitors. Thankfully those charged ... Read more
	TRAVEL: Immerse yourself in Bath's beauty; Visit England's only World Heritage City for a day and you'll be back for a longer stay, says Marc White.(Features) ; BATH is one of those cities that if you don't stumble upon it...Heritage City. You will be amazed by the massive history Bath has to offer in such a small area. And you can walk the whole...in 973 and in 1840 the first Penny Black was posted from Bath? And it was there that John Palmer first started the ... Read more
	Familiar fly-half is not missed by exciting Bath ; Bath versus Harlequins at The Rec wasn't just going to be about a close encounter between two great rivals, but the return of ex-Bath player Chris Malone. When Malone played at The Rec, Bath fans tended to fall in to two camps. One included those who were prepared to tolerate his limited... Read more
	Canter cards Bath course record ; Bath Laurie Canter shot a record round of 68 over the new extended course at Bath Golf Club during last Saturday's Club Tankard Medal. Playing...Horgan, Jim Brown, Denis Winman, Ewan Caldwell and Ian Mowatt. Bath's men's team ran out 5-0 winners over Cannington in the quarter-fina... Read more
	Rugby Union: O'Kelly kills off depleted Bath in cruel finale Bath 23 Leinster 27 Half-time: 13-13 Attendance: 10,500 ; Bath saw their lifeline to the Heineken Cup severed yesterday...a different species, the RSPCA would have been called in. Bath's chances of qualifying for the quarter-finals were already...winners. "We are incredibly disappointed," John Connolly, the Bath coach, said. "The players put in a phenomenal effort ... Read more
	Bath miss a chance to regain status ; Bath will have to wait another year for a shot at the English championship after crashing out of the Guinness Premiership play- offs at Wasps yesterday. ; Bath will have to wait another year for a shot at the English...suffered a bad ankle injury midway through the second half. Bath lost home advantage for the semi-final after their defeat...table from 10th from just before Christmas. They had beaten Bath twice during the campaign and, to make matters worse, ... Read more
	Bath clinging on to top spot ; Bath were left hanging on at the top of the Guinness Premiership...while Oriol Ripol supplied the only try of the evening. And Bath head coach Steve Meehan could today be counting the cost...guess. On the face of it, the heavy going appeared to favour Bath, with their bulky tight five and the way they had ... Read more

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