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Historic houses · South West England

Georgian Britain: walking the squares

Bath, Edinburgh New Town, Bloomsbury — the architecture of the 18th century.

The Georgian period (1714-1837) gave Britain its most coherent urban architecture — terraces, squares, crescents in honey-coloured stone or warm brick. Bath has the most famous (the Royal Crescent, the Circus); Edinburgh's New Town the largest; London's Bloomsbury and Marylebone the densest. A long weekend can cover all three.

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