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To celebrate the release of Bridgerton today, I will be featuring a few of the locations used in the filming, I am working on a feature of a Bridgerton/ Paranormal nature, so watch this space!

This is Lady Danburys Home. The Holburne Museum - Bathwick - Bath Since 1916 the Museum has been housed in the former Sydney Hotel at the end of Great Pulteney Street. The original design for the Hotel, prepared by Thomas Baldwin in 1794, was a two-storey building which would serve the pleasure gardens, known as Sydney Gardens, laid out by Baldwin beyond. The gardens remain the only remaining eighteenth-century pleasure gardens (or Vauxhall) in the country. After Baldwin was bankrupted his design for the hotel was not implemented. Instead a three-storey building was designed by Charles Harcourt Masters. The foundation stone was laid in 1796 and the building was ready by 1799. Visitors entered the gardens through the Hotel. It has been used as a location for many films & tv series, most recently seen in Bridgerton as Lady Danburys house. Hauntings - Reputed to be haunted by a little boy.. Has anyone heard any other stories?

Bridgerton Haunted Locations.. Bath

To celebrate the release of Bridgerton Series 2, I am featuring some haunted hotspots on the sites in Bath where Bridgerton was filmed..

Mainly series 1, as due to the overwhelming success of the first season, filming for Season 2 was sneakily done in May last year just at the Holburne Museum (Lady Danburys House)

Trim Street

The location of Gunters Tea Shop where Simon and Daphne meet with the famous spoon licking scene and where Simon later ends their friendship outside, as well as the Hat Emporium next door.

Hauntings- The Victorian Gent of Trim Street - Bath

There have been multiple sightings of this apparition by many different people, they are always alone and the description is always the same..

They report seeing a man in Victorian evening dress with a long black cloak and top hat, one particular witness in 1980 described him as emerging from the Archway and walked towards them and crossed their path going to the far side of the road, as the witness tried to turn their head to stop and look at hi,m they found they couldn't and just kept walking, but an unpleasant feeling came across them as they realised what they had witnessed.

As this lifted they turned to look and found he had vanished, yet there wasn't enough time for him to have left the street or gone into a doorway..

History - Trim Street is an historic street, built in 1707, of shops and houses, many of which are listed buildings.

It was named after George Trim who owned the land.

Number 5, which is also known as General Wolfe's house, is a two-storey building with a parapet and rusticated quoins, built by Thomas Greenway.

The doorway has Ionic pilasters and a tympanum decorated with the implements of war.

General James Wolfe was staying in the house when William Pitt, the elder commanded him to lead an expedition to Quebec, he died in 1759, so its doubtful the apparition is him, as the attire is described as Victorian.. ?

Jane Austen also lived in Trim Street, although her house is no longer there.

This was the Austen family's fourth address in Bath, each progressively cheaper and less desirable than the last.

Photo Source - Pinterest Shondaland/ Netflix & Bath in Time

Bridgerton Haunted Locations.. Bath

To celebrate the release of Bridgerton Series 2, I am featuring some haunted hotspots on the sites in Bath where Bridgerton was filmed..

Mainly series 1, as due to the overwhelming success of the first season, filming for Season 2 was sneakily done in May last year just at the Holburne Museum (Lady Danburys House)

The Royal Crescent

The Royal Crescent features in a lot of the scene-setting sequences in Bridgerton used to transport the viewer to Regency London, right from the beginning of the first ever episode, errand boys deliver the latest offerings from Lady Whistledown, and couples promenade.

In S1 Ep4, the characters gallop on horseback along the Royal Crescent and Beauford Square at night on their way to duel at daybreak.

At the farther end of the Crescent, Simon and Lady Danbury take a carriage ride together where the Crescent can be seen in the background and No. 1 Royal Crescent, on the corner, was used as the frontage for the Featherington House.

Hauntings -

Sounding like a plotline straight out of Bridgerton this ghostly tale starts off as a love story between classical singer Elizabeth Linley and playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Elizabeth was born in Bath in 1754 and travelled the country with her family, singing.

Not only was Elizabeth a talented Soprano but was also the so called ‘Beauty of Bath’.

She had many admirers, the most persistent of which was Captain Thomas Mathews, who constantly harassed her, trying to force her to be his lover. Elizabeth, however, was not interested, and it was at this point she met Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Sheridan was born in Ireland in 1751 and moved to Bath in 1770. He got to know Elizabeth, who was friends with his sister, and quickly became her confidant.

One evening in March 1772, Elizabeth was at home at Number 11, Royal Crescent, and under the cover of darkness snuck out to meet Sheridan who was waiting for her in the horse-drawn carriage outside.

From there they journeyed to France where they secretly eloped, at the time they were both underage and didn’t have their parents’ consent, so they swore to keep it a secret.

Once back in Bath Captain Mathews challenged Sheridan to a duel, Sheridan was victorious and went to Elizabeth’s father to officially ask for her hand in marriage but was denied and they were banned from speaking to each other.

This spurred Captain Mathews to confront Sheridan again, resulting in another duel, which this time Sheridan lost; however, his life was saved by a miniature of Elizabeth that he carried in his breast pocket.

Eventually, once they had both come of age, after much persistence from Sheridan, and Elizabeth threatening suicide, her father agreed that Elizabeth and Sheridan could marry.

There is no happy ending to this love story though, as they were both unfaithful throughout their marriage and at the age of 38 Elizabeth died from tuberculosis, with Sheridan living until he was 64.

However, their spirits reunited, and they remain together in the afterlife, with the couple’s ghosts’ been caught haunting the Royal Crescent in a horse-drawn carriage, as they did the night they eloped.

Sounds of a ghostly horse and carriage can sometimes be heard.

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The Electricity Obsessed Spirit of Milsom Street.. Bath History - Milsom Street was built in 1762 The buildings were originally grand town houses, but most are now used as shops, offices and banks. As a fashionable Georgian thoroughfare, Milsom Street is quoted in several of the works of Jane Austen, including Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Hauntings - For many years several of the shops have reported a presence of a spirit in their premises which seems to have an obsession with lights and saving electricity! This spirit is said to turn off lights at random on window displays and within the shop. Its not just the lights at the window displays, but lights in other parts of the building even if there are staff members present too.. It will also close doors and turn televisions on and off..! The spirit is thought to be that of a former occupant of the premises who was thought to be a bit strange in life as he had an obsession with turning lights off and closing doors...! I have also heard stories of a presence in Jollys stockroom as well.. also apparently there was a funeral directors in Jollys and in the basement there is a room known as the body room, which must have been the morgue, this is said to have a presence..

Roman Baths - Bath This is the most famous part of Bath, but are there any ghosts lurking around the ancient springs and underground tunnels of the Baths? History - The Roman Baths are a well-preserved thermae in the city of Bath, Somerset, England. A temple was constructed on the site between 60-70AD in the first few decades of Roman Britain. Its presence led to the development of the small Roman urban settlement known as Aquae Sulis around the site. The Roman baths—designed for public bathing—were used until the end of Roman rule in Britain in the 5th Century AD. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the original Roman baths were in ruins a century later. The area around the natural springs was redeveloped several times during the Early and Late Middle Ages. The Roman Baths are preserved in four main features: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House, and a museum which holds artefacts from Aquae Sulis. However, all buildings at street level date from the 19th century. It is now a major tourist attraction in the UK, and together with the Grand Pump Room. Archaeological evidence indicates that the site of the baths may have been a centre of worship used by Celts, the springs were dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva. The name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis"). The temple was constructed in 60–70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years During the Roman occupation of Britain, and possibly on the instructions of Emperor Claudius, engineers drove oak piles to provide a stable foundation into the mud and surrounded the spring with an irregular stone chamber lined with lead. In the 2nd century it was enclosed within a wooden barrel-vaulted building, and included the caldarium (hot bath), tepidarium (lukewarm bath), and frigidarium (cold bath). After the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the first decade of the 5th century, these fell into disrepair and were eventually lost due to silting up and flooding. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests the original Roman baths were destroyed in the 6th century. About 130 curse tablets have been found, many of the curses are related to thefts of clothes whilst the victim was bathing. The baths have been modified on several occasions, including the 12th century and the 16th century, when the city corporation built a new bath (Queen's Bath) to the south of the spring. Anne of Denmark came to Bath twice for her health. The spring is now housed in 18th-century buildings, designed by architects John Wood, the Elder and John Wood, the Younger, father and son. Visitors drank the waters in the Grand Pump Room, a neo-classical salon which remains in use, both for taking the waters and for social functions. Victorian expansion of the baths complex followed the neo-classical tradition established by the Woods. Hauntings - There are no recorded stories of hauntings in the Roman Baths, not that can be found in the public domain so far as I have looked.. Although people who have worked there have said about an eerie feeling late at night, with one entry on Trip Advisor saying they had their hair pulled whilst there. There have been several sightings of Roman soldiers in the area, including in the basement under the Gainsborough Hotel, just across from the Baths, where Roman artefacts have been unearthed. An early Roman military presence has been found just to the North-East of the bath complex in the Walcot area of modern Bath. Not far from the crossing point of their road There are about half a dozen altar stones dedicated to various gods by men from nearly every Roman legion stationed in Britain, and almost an equal number of tombstones recording their earthly remains. There is, however, but a single inscription which mentions a Roman auxiliary regiment, on the tombstone of a retired cavalryman (RIB 159 infra). The presence of these military men here in a thriving Spa-town, where veteran soldiers and retired statesmen would

History- Some of the earliest records are found in a Saxon Charter, dated 956 AD, and in the Doomsday Book The parish of Bathampton is situated in Somerset, to the north-east of the City of Bath, and covers some 932 acres of which approximately 230 are known today as Bathampton Down – the hill which forms the southern most part of the parish. The area has been extensively quarried over many centuries – which has had much influence on the overall landscape and remnants of the quarries often referred to as Hampton Cliffs or Hampton Rocks. The Lord of the Manor who probably had the most impact on the parish was the famous Ralph Allen – business man, entrepreneur and local benefactor. He made his fortune reorganizing the postal service and put it to good use when he became involved in the building of Georgian Bath by opening local quarries and promoting the use of Bath Stone. During the building of the railway, however, four skeletons together with remains of pieces of metal and shot were found to the east of the above site and were believed to date to the Civil War. The line of the road from Bath, along Bathampton Lane, High Street and Tyning Lane is thought to be of Roman origin. Its course then ran on in a straight line from Tyning Lane across the meadows to the river where there was a ford leading to a trackway that passed uphill to Bathford. The Site of a Roman Villa, to the south of today’s High Street, was identified by the Rev. John Skinner in the 19th century and from his plans was believed to be under the present allotments. Geo-physics of the area has been inconclusive and it is now thought to be more to the east, under the adjacent area used as a playing field. The ground here has been greatly ‘made up’ which has prevented further attempts to identify the building by Geo-physics. Numerous archaeological finds have been found throughout the parish, including a Roman coffin and skeleton, silver coins in the vicinity of the Roman Villa and a nearby burial which revealed a brooch now in the Ashmolian Museum, Oxford. Other finds are held by the Roman Baths Museum, Bath. The George Inn is a Grade III Listed Building and was formerly a farmhouse dating to at least the 18th century or late 17th century. During the 18th and 19th century inquiries into unnatural deaths in the village were held here, and there are various reports as to where the body’s were kept, ranging from the cellar to a shed in the garden! Including that of Elsie Adeline Luke, whose skeletal remains were found in a cave at Hampton Rocks in 1893, two years after her disappearance, she was brutally murdered. Her murder remains unsolved to this day, she is buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas in the village. Hauntings - The pub is reputed to be haunted, by the spirit of Jeane Baptiste De Barre, who died in the pub after loosing at a duel, he asked to be taken to a pub for his last drink and died there, he appears occasionally around the bar and is seen in the form of shadows. But as for anywhere else, with such a rich history there could be many unreported hauntings in and around the village.. Source - Bathampton Village History - See links below

http://www.bathampton-village.org.uk/history/?fbclid=IwAR3BgReOF0OUspXcrteJ5zVWn0y8AyyQnxGBvPX34b13kDWekxZY5__vaB8