River Avon at Bath

Continuing my Rivers theme, having blipped a section of the Bristol Avon yesterday, ideally I would have followed next with the Salisbury Avon. I spent some time researching a suitable spot and hope to return to it for a future blip, but today I was in the Georgian city of Bath, so once again it is the Bristol Avon.

This view is rather more recognizable than yesterday's, showing a well-known stretch of the river in the city centre from the eastern side of the river looking north towards Pulteney Bridge, famously one of only four in the world to be fully spanned with shops on both sides. The bridge was designed by Robert Adam and completed in 1773.

The river is navigable from Pulteney weir, visible in front of the bridge, and is joined by the Kennet and Avon Canal just along from here to the west, hence the narrow-boats seen moored here.