Bridgerton Bike Tour
You’ll be spoilt for Georgian choice whilst soaking the filming locations from Netflix’s Bridgerton. We’ve been operating guided walking, cycling and stand up paddle board tours in Bath with wildswimbikerun.com and bathcycletours.com in Bath since 2017. We love getting people off the main streets to discover stunning period locations and places to enjoy, eat, drink and reflect.
We’ve put together some information on the filming locations including a suggested route and some choice places to stop and relax along the way. For the film and TV buffs you may recognise a few familiar places from Poldark, Vanity Fair, The Duchess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Remains of the Day, Les Misérables, Dracula (2006) amongst others including many episodes from our favourite Time Team.
We have provided a Google map route and pdf route maps which you can download with your smartphone to help you enjoy the amazing cycling we have around Bath. This is also more environmentally friendly than printed maps (which is why we don’t provide them!).
The Bridgertons
No 1. Royal Crescent
The Royal Crescent
Royal Victoria Park
Lady Danbury
The Holburne Museum
It was built in 1799 as the Sydney Hotel, and it still has the last remaining English pleasure garden from the 1700s. Enjoy an al fresco treat in the cafe to the rear of the museum before exploring Sydney Gardens.
Sydney Gardens
Sydney Gardens was frequently visited by members of the Royal family and, of course, the famous author Jane Austen who lived at number 4 Sydney Place, directly opposite.
Great Pulteney Street
This beautiful street, completed in 1789, was commissioned by Sir William Pulteney and designed by Georgian architect Thomas Baldwin. You’ll notice the street feature in the backdrop to a number of scenes.
Ballroom Scenes
Bridgerton’s ballroom scenes were filmed across Bath’s ballrooms and several stately homes, with a different ball taking place in just about every episode.
The Assembly Rooms
The magnificent Assembly Rooms were at the centre of the social scene during the eighteenth century, when the Ball Room, Octagon, Tea Room and Card Room would have been used for dancing, card playing, tea drinking and conversation.
The rooms are still in use for functions and conferences, and you can visit them when they are not in use. Grand and elegant, the Assembly Rooms are home to spectacular, original Whitefriars crystal chandeliers and the largest eighteenth-century room in the city.
The Guildhall
The Guildhall was built in the late 1770s by architect Thomas Baldwin and is crafted from the beautiful, caramel-coloured Bath stone which adorns so many historic buildings in the city.
The Banqueting Room is the largest and most impressive room in the building and boasts original Royal oil paintings on the wall and many original Georgian features. The other significant historic room to see is the Aix-en-Provence Room which adjoins the Banqueting Room.
The Holburne Museum
On the impressive approach to The Holburne Museum, the building’s grand façade and gardens provide an inkling of its grandeur and history. The Grade I listed building was originally designed and constructed as a hotel but is now home to a collection of fine and decorative art.
The fascinating pieces that adorn one of Bath’s most beautiful buildings vary from Renaissance treasures to masterpieces by Gainsborough. There is so much to see and explore, and even if you’re a regular visitor you can discover something new with the continually-changing temporary exhibitions.
The Streets
The streets of Bath, an ideally preserved oasis of historic architecture and Roman mineral springs, actually did most of the on-camera work for London’s Mayfair, Covent Garden, Pall Mall and London street scenes.
Beauford Square
Beauford Square, used for more street filming, is a square of two-storey cottages built in 1730 to a design by John Strahan. The south side is formed by the original frontage to the Theatre Royal. In the centre was a communal garden. It is now a small rectangular lawn, enclosed with wrought iron railings.
Bath Street
Bath Street was built by Thomas Baldwin in 1791. Several of the buildings have been designated as Grade I listed buildings. It was originally named Cross Bath Street as it contains the Cross Bath. It is also the entrance to the much more recent Thermae Bath Spa. At the northern end of the street the buildings are continuous with those in Stall Street.
Abbey Green
Abbey Green was used to stand in for Covent Garden with the Abbey Deli AKA dress shop Modiste on the corner. You can also visit a scene set outside a bar, when Simon Basset has had a bit too much to drink. Filming took place outside The Columbian Company.
The Shops
Abbey Deli
Just off Abbey Green is where The Abbey Deli was transformed into dressmakers ‘Modiste’. Sit and enjoy delicious tea, coffee and food in this historic Georgian building.
Kimberley
Kimberley clothing boutique on Trim Street was transformed into Lady Dee’s Hat Emporium.
No 12 Trim Street
A number of scenes in Pall Mall were set outside 12 Trim Street, which was used as the exterior for Gunters Tea Shop
Food and Drink – We recommend
Boston Tea Party, Alfred Street
One of our favourite breakfast spots
The Green Bird Cafe
Good coffee in a quiet Georgian back street
The Holburne Museum
Lunch like Lady Danbury
Abbey Deli
More coffee, tea and delicious food than dresses
The Raven
No better place in Bath for a pint and a pie
The White Hart, Widcombe
Great food with a hidden courtyard garden
Beercraft
Think every beer you have never tasted but need to drink