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'Why was the Royal Crescent Built?'
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'Why was the Royal Crescent Built?' AMELIA WALKER 10SC/CRB Firstly, before I begin my essay, I would like to state that there are factors that I will be describing as local factors; which are simply the aspects of the location/city at the time that affected the popularity of Bath, and thus, the building of the Royal Crescent. There will also be factors I will be describing as National factors; which are aspects of the growth of the country in that era, which affected the cities and towns within it (thus affecting Bath also!) ~~~ "The lodgings for visitors were paltry, expensive and dirty. The city was in itself mean and contemptible; no elegant buildings, no open squares, nor uniform streets!" ... was how Bath was described by Oliver Goldsmith in 1702. Bath was nothing more than a small country town at the time; and it was hardly forseeable that it...
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