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Bath Postal Museum

Bath Postal Museum is a museum in Bath. Add The Roman Baths, 500 m away, to a visit; it leads 57 places within 15 km. Wikipedia covers it in 3 languages.

Photo: Bath Postal Museum, Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where

In Bath

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 28%

#2,392 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 17–22°C

In brief

Museum in Bath

Inside Bath

Bath Postal Museum is inside Bath’s built-up area, with 33 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Seasons in Bath

May to September are the warmest in Bath, with afternoon highs of 17–22°C.

Jan8° / 2°83 mm

Feb9° / 2°60 mm

Mar11° / 4°54 mm

Apr14° / 5°56 mm

May17° / 8°60 mm

Jun20° / 11°57 mm

Jul22° / 13°61 mm

Aug22° / 13°70 mm

Sep19° / 11°62 mm

Oct15° / 8°84 mm

Nov11° / 5°91 mm

Dec9° / 3°90 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Bath, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Bath. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Bath’s full climate →

About

Bath Postal Museum

Museum in Bath, United Kingdom.

In Bath, inside the town’s built-up area.

Type: Museum
Wikipedias: Covered in 3 languages
Town: in Bath
Official site: bathpostalmuseum.org.uk

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Around Bath Postal Museum, mapped

The map puts Bath Postal Museum in orange and numbers its neighbours as in the list.

Towns near it

Towns within reach of Bath Postal Museum

Bath tops the 8 for size, at 94,080 people. Closest first, each of these towns names it on its page.

1 · It’s in town

Bath

94,080 people · 41 places to visit

2 · 2.4 km northeast of it

Bathampton

1,698 people · 35 places to visit

3 · 3.4 km northeast of it

Batheaston

3,878 people · 34 places to visit

4 · 3.6 km southeast of it

Monkton Combe

600 people · 36 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Bath Postal Museum is	People	Places to visit
Bath	It’s in town	94,080	41
Bathampton	2.4 km northeast of it	1,698	35
Batheaston	3.4 km northeast of it	3,878	34
Monkton Combe	3.6 km southeast of it	600	36
Bathford	4.6 km northeast of it	1,153	33
Limpley Stoke	4.6 km southeast of it	505	32
Newton St Loe	4.8 km west of it	1,372	9
Corston	4.9 km west of it	502	8

Make a day of it

Next door to Bath Postal Museum

Our list has 57 more within 15 km, among them 5 museums, an art gallery and a fort.

MuseumThe Roman Baths500 m away 2

Art galleryVictoria Art Gallery700 m away · 92K visitors a year 3

MuseumJane Austen Centre600 m away 4

MuseumHerschel Museum of Astronomy300 m away 5

Museum · National TrustThe Assembly Rooms800 m away 6

Fort · National TrustLittle Solsbury Hill4.1 km away 7

Garden · National TrustPrior Park2.1 km away 8

MuseumMuseum of East Asian Art800 m away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Planning a visit to Bath Postal Museum

Where is Bath Postal Museum?

Bath Postal Museum is in Bath, Somerset, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Bath Postal Museum?

Museum in Bath, United Kingdom.

When is the best time to visit Bath Postal Museum?

May to September are the warmest months in Bath, with afternoon highs of 17–22°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Bath Postal Museum?

Within 15 km: The Roman Baths (500 m), Victoria Art Gallery (700 m), Jane Austen Centre (600 m) and Herschel Museum of Astronomy (300 m).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

Bath Postal Museum: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
The Roman Baths: Diliff, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
Victoria Art Gallery: Stephen Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Jane Austen Centre: Fahdshariff at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Herschel Museum of Astronomy: Nveitch at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
The Assembly Rooms: Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Little Solsbury Hill: Beechenbummer at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Prior Park: Infilms, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Museum of East Asian Art: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

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