Royal Crescent from the allotments in Royal Victoria Park, Bath

Royal Crescent is one of Bath's most celebrated pieces of architecture. This semi-elliptical crescent of thirty houses was built between 1767 and 1775. It was designed by the local architect John Wood, the Younger. As can be seen in this photograph, a number of houses in the Crescent were damaged by bombing during the Second World War, three of which were gutted by incendiary bombs.

Historic England Archive AA45/05924