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Beckford's Tower and Museum.
"On the summit of the hill, he (Beckford) caused to be erected by
Goodridge, the architect, a Tower, one hundred and thirty
feet high, crowned with a cast-iron model of the Temple
of Lysicrates at Athens. Subsequently he regretted that
the structure was not at least forty feet higher. "However," he remarked, "such as it is, it is a famous landmark
for the drunken farmers on their return from market";
but as the hill was eight hundred feet above the sea-
level, from the top of the Tower Beckford through a
powerful glass could see the ships entering the Bristol
Channel."
Extract from "The life and letters of William Beckford, of Fonthill" (Open
Library)
Beckford's Tower is a Bath Preservation Trust property with free entry
for Bath Preservation Trust members. The
Building of Bath Collection,
No. 1 Royal Crescent and the Herschel Museum of
Astronomy are also Bath Preservation Trust properties.
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Address:
Beckford's Tower,
Lansdown Road,
Lansdown,
Bath
Website: www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk
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