Gravel Walk Bath Jane Austen

Gravel Walk Bath

A short stroll from the Jane Austen Centre on Gay Street is Gravel Walk, just off Queen’s Parade Place in Bath.

Follow in Jane Austen’s footsteps on the Gravel Walk in Bath

History

Known as something of a Lover’s Lane in Jane Austen’s day, the path was a route for sedan chairs heading to and from the town centre and following the path will take you almost into Victoria Park behind The Circus and The Royal Crescent, with fine views of the backs of houses and their gardens on Gay Street.

Georgian Garden, Gravel Walk, Bath

Gravel Walk is the setting for a love scene between Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth in Austen’s novel Persuasion.

“My idea of good company…is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.’
‘You are mistaken,’ said he gently, ‘that is not good company, that is the best.”

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