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Royal Crescent, the Glossary

The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath, England.^[1]

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Crescents (architecture)
Grade I listed residential buildings
Houses completed in 1774

Andrew Davis (businessman)

Andrew Davis (born 12 February 1964) is a British businessman who founded the von Essen Group, which included Von Essen Hotels, PremiAir and the London Heliport.

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Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts

Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (née Burdett; 21 April 1814 – 30 December 1906) was a British philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of banker Thomas Coutts.

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Anne Elliot

Anne Elliot is the protagonist of Jane Austen's sixth and last completed novel, Persuasion (1817).

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Baedeker Blitz

The Baedeker Blitz or Baedeker raids was a series of bombing raids in April and May 1942 by the German Luftwaffe on English cities during World War II.

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Balconet

Balconet or balconette is an architectural term to describe a false balcony, or railing at the outer plane of a window-opening reaching to the floor, and having, when the window is open, the appearance of a balcony.

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Bath and North East Somerset

Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) is a unitary authority district in Somerset, South West England.

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Bath Blitz

The term Bath Blitz refers to the air raids by the German Luftwaffe on the British city of Bath, Somerset, during World War II.

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Bath Preservation Trust

The Bath Preservation Trust (or "BPT") is a charity that is based in Bath, Somerset, England, which exists to safeguard for the public benefit the historic character and amenities of the city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and its environs.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath (RP) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, in England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths.

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Bathampton

Bathampton is a village and civil parish east of Bath, England on the south bank of the River Avon.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Blue Stockings Society

The Blue Stockings Society was an informal women's social and educational movement in England in the mid-18th century that emphasised education and mutual cooperation.

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Bonekickers

Bonekickers is a BBC drama about a team of archaeologists, set at the fictional Wessex University.

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Bridgerton

Bridgerton is an American historical romance television series created by Chris Van Dusen for Netflix.

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Buxton Crescent

Buxton Crescent is a Grade-I-listed building in the town of Buxton, Derbyshire, England. Royal Crescent and Buxton Crescent are crescents (architecture).

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%.

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Catch Us If You Can (film)

Catch Us If You Can (U.S. title: Having a Wild Weekend in the U.S.; also known as The Dave Clark Five Runs Wild) is the 1965 feature-film debut of director John Boorman.

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Chester

Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the England-Wales border.

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Christopher Anstey

Christopher Anstey (31 October 1724 – 3 August 1805) was an English poet who also wrote in Latin.

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Claverton Down

Claverton Down is a suburb on the south-east hilltop edge of Bath, Somerset, England.

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Column

A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.

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Connaught Place, New Delhi

Connaught Place, officially known as Rajiv Chowk, is one of the main financial, commercial and business centres in New Delhi, Delhi, India.

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Crescent (architecture)

A crescent is an architectural structure where a row of residences, typically terraced houses, are laid out in an arc to form a crescent shape. Royal Crescent and crescent (architecture) are crescents (architecture).

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 180318 January 1873) was an English writer and politician.

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Elizabeth Ann Linley

Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (September 1754 – 28 June 1792) was an English singer who was known to have possessed great beauty.

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Elizabeth Montagu

Elizabeth Montagu (née Robinson; 2 October 1718 – 25 August 1800) was a British social reformer, patron of the arts, salonnière, literary critic and writer, who helped to organize and lead the Blue Stockings Society.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.

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Entablature

An entablature (nativization of Italian intavolatura, from in "in" and tavola "table") is the superstructure of moldings and bands which lies horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals.

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Exploration

Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery.

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Fosse Way

The Fosse Way was a Roman road built in Britain during the first and second centuries AD that linked Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter) in the southwest and Lindum Colonia (Lincoln) to the northeast, via Lindinis (Ilchester), Aquae Sulis (Bath), Corinium (Cirencester), and Ratae Corieltauvorum (Leicester).

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Francis Burdett

Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (25 January 1770 – 23 January 1844) was a British politician and Member of Parliament who gained notoriety as a proponent (in advance of the Chartists) of universal male suffrage, equal electoral districts, vote by ballot, and annual parliaments.

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Garrard baronets

There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Garrard, both in the Baronetage of England.

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George Saintsbury

George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, FBA (23 October 1845 – 28 January 1933), was an English critic, literary historian, editor, teacher, and wine connoisseur.

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Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.

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Grade I listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset

Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County of Avon, which had existed since 1974.

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Ha-ha

A ha-ha (hâ-hâ or saut de loup), also known as a sunk fence, blind fence, ditch and fence, deer wall, or foss, is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier (particularly on one side) while preserving an uninterrupted view of the landscape beyond from the other side.

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Henry Sandford, 1st Baron Mount Sandford

Henry Moore Sandford, 1st Baron Mount Sandford (28 July 1751 – 29 December 1814), was an Irish landowner and politician.

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Heritage at Risk Register

An annual Heritage at Risk Register is published by Historic England.

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Historic house museum

A historic house museum is a house of historic significance that is preserved as a museum.

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Hot air balloon

A hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air.

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Housing Act 1985

The Housing Act 1985 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Housing association

In Ireland and the United Kingdom, housing associations are private, non-profit making organisations that provide low-cost "social housing" for people in need of a home.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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Isaac Pitman

Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 22 January 1897) was an English publisher and teacher of the:English language who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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John Wood, the Elder

John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath.

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John Wood, the Younger

John Wood, the Younger (25 February 1728 – 18 June 1782) was an English architect, working principally in the city of Bath, Somerset.

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Jurist

A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyzes and comments on law.

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Keira Knightley

Keira Christina Knightley (born 26 March 1985) is an English actress.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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London & Regional Properties

London & Regional Properties (L&R) is a private real estate and leisure investment firm based in London, United Kingdom.

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McDonald & Dodds

McDonald & Dodds is a British television crime drama series created and principally written by screenwriter Robert Murphy.

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Mercenary

A mercenary, also called a merc, soldier of fortune, or hired gun, is a private individual who joins an armed conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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No. 1 Royal Crescent

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Our Girl

Our Girl is a British military drama television series, written and created by Tony Grounds, first broadcast on BBC One on 24 March 2013.

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Palladian architecture

Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580).

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Persuasion (2007 film)

Persuasion is a 2007 British television film adaptation of Jane Austen's 1817 novel Persuasion.

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Philip Jebb

Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb (15 March 1927 – 7 April 1995) was a British architect and Liberal Party politician.

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Philip Thicknesse

Captain Philip Thicknesse (1719 – 23 November 1792) was a British Army officer and writer who was a friend of the artist Thomas Gainsborough.

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Pitman shorthand

Pitman shorthand is a system of shorthand for the English language developed by Englishman Sir Isaac Pitman (1813–1897), who first presented it in 1837.

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Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany

Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (Frederick Augustus; 16 August 1763 – 5 January 1827) was the second son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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Public housing in the United Kingdom

Public housing in the United Kingdom, also known as council housing or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011 when the number of households in private rental housing surpassed the number in social housing.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester.

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Robert Tor Russell

Robert Tor Russell (1888–1972) was a British architect.

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Roman Baths (Bath)

The Roman Baths are well-preserved thermae in the city of Bath, Somerset, England.

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Royal Victoria Park, Bath

Royal Victoria Park is a public park in Bath, England.

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Rustication (architecture)

Two different styles of rustication in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence; smooth-faced above and rough-faced below Rustication is a range of masonry techniques used in classical architecture giving visible surfaces a finish texture that contrasts with smooth, squared-block masonry called ashlar.

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Sash window

A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels, or "sashes".

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Secretary of State for the Environment

The secretary of state for the environment was a UK cabinet position, responsible for the Department of the Environment (DoE).

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Shorthand

Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language.

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Sod

Sod is the upper layer of turf that is harvested for transplanting.

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Somerset

Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Succession rights in the United Kingdom (housing law)

Succession rights in the United Kingdom is an area of housing law concerning the ability to pass on their tenancy when they die something known as a succession.

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Terraced house

A terrace, terraced house (UK), or townhouse (US) is a kind of medium-density housing that first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls.

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The Circus, Bath

The Circus is a historic ring of large townhouses in the city of Bath, Somerset, England, forming a circle with three entrances. Royal Crescent and the Circus, Bath are crescents (architecture).

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The Duchess (film)

The Duchess is a 2008 historical drama film directed by Saul Dibb, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen, based on the 1998 book Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, about the late 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.

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The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box is a 1966 British comedy film produced and directed by Bryan Forbes and starring John Mills, Ralph Richardson and an large ensemble cast.

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Thomas Falconer (jurist)

Thomas Falconer (25 June 1805 – 28 August 1882) was an English jurist and explorer.

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Thomas Linley the elder

Thomas Linley (17 January 1733 – 19 November 1795) was an English bass and musician active in Bath, Somerset.

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Time Team

Time Team is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014.

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Topland Group

Topland Group is a British property and investment company.

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William Hargood

Admiral of the White Sir William Hargood (6 May 1762 – 12 December 1839) was a British naval officer who served with distinction through the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars, during which he gained an unfortunate reputation for bad luck, which seemed to reverse following his courageous actions at the battle of Trafalgar in command of HMS ''Belleisle''.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Crescent

Also known as Royal Crescent, Bath, The Royal Crescent.

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See also

Crescents (architecture)

Grade I listed residential buildings

Houses completed in 1774

References