Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'City of Bath' has mentioned 'Town' in the following places:
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| Archaeological evidence shows that the site of the Roman baths' main spring may have been treated as a shrine by the Britons,[13][14] and was dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva; the name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, appearing in the town's Roman name, Aquae Sulis (literally, "the waters of Sulis"). | WIKI |
| The town was later given defensive walls, probably in the 3rd century. | WIKI |
| [22] The town was captured by the West Saxons in 577 after the Battle of Deorham;[23] the Anglo-Saxon poem The Ruin may describe the appearance of the Roman site about this time. | WIKI |
| King Alfred laid out the town afresh, leaving its south-eastern quadrant as the abbey precinct. | WIKI |
| [31] During the reign of Edward the Elder coins were minted in Bath based on a design from the Winchester mint but with 'BAD' on the obverse relating to the Anglo-Saxon name for the town, Baxc3xb0um, Baxc3xb0an or Baxc3xb0on, meaning "at the baths",[32] and this was the source of the present name. | WIKI |
| William Rufus granted the town, abbey and mint to a royal physician, John of Tours, who became Bishop of Wells and Abbot of Bath,[34][35] following the sacking of the town during the Rebellion of 1088. | WIKI |
| In 1965 town planner Professor Colin Buchanan published Bath: A Planning and Transport Study, which to a large degree sought to better accommodate the motor car, including the idea of a traffic tunnel underneath the centre of Bath. | WIKI |
| Since the opening of Thermae Bath Spa in 2006, the city has attempted to recapture its historical position as the only town or city in the United Kingdom offering visitors the opportunity to bathe in naturally heated spring waters. | WIKI |
| [112] Wood never lived to see his unique example of town planning completed as he died five days after personally laying the foundation stone on 18 May 1754. | WIKI |
| This system of town planning is betrayed at the rear of the crescent: while the front is completely uniform and symmetrical, the rear is a mixture of differing roof heights, juxtapositions and fenestration. | WIKI |
| The City of Bath is of Outstanding Universal Value for the following cultural attributes: The Roman remains, especially the Temple of Sulis Minerva and the baths complex (based around the hot springs at the heart of the Roman town of Aquae Sulis, which have remained at the heart of the Cityxe2x80x99s development ever since) are amongst the most famous and important Roman remains north of the Alps, and marked the beginning of Bathxe2x80x99s history as a spa town. | UNESCO |
| Bathxe2x80x99s urban and landscape spaces are created by the buildings that enclose them, providing a series of interlinked spaces that flow organically, and that visually (and at times physically) draw in the green surrounding countryside to create a distinctive garden city feel, looking forward to the principles of garden cities developed by the 19th century town planners. | UNESCO |
| Bath exemplifies the main themes of the 18th century neoclassical city; the monumentalisation of ordinary houses, the integration of landscape and town, and the creation and interlinking of urban spaces, designed and developed as a response to the growing popularity of Bath as a society and spa destination and to provide an appropriate picturesque setting and facilities for the cure takers and social visitors. | UNESCO |
| Remains of the known Roman baths, the Temple of Sulis Minerva and the below grounds Roman archaeology are well preserved and within the property boundary as are the areas of Georgian town planning and architecture, and large elements of the landscape within which the city is set. | UNESCO |
| Firstly, individual buildings, monuments and landscapes are designated under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 and the 1979 Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act, and secondly through the UK Spatial Planning system under the provisions of the Town and Country Planning Acts. | UNESCO |