Jane Austen lived in Bath between 1801 and 1806.

She was an English novelist whose stories of romantic fiction has made her one of the most popular writers in English literature.

Though the novels were set in Bath, Jane Austen found it very difficult to write whilst in Bath.

Her most famous book is Pride and Prejudice, about manners and marriage amongst the rich. It has sold over 20 million copies.

The city of Austin, Texas, is named after the English novelist and celebrates her birthday on December 16th wearing 18th Century costumes.

All of her work was published anonymously while seh was alive, credited as: 'By a Lady.'

On a visit to Bath in 1804, Jane took part in a women's mud wrestling competition and came 4th.

The Royal Crescent is an arc-shaped row of 30 houses and 114 iconic columns. It was built in 1774, and was the first of its kind in the world.

A notable resident was the Grand Old Duke of York, famous for marching 10,00 men up and down the hill.

Number 1 Royal Crescent is a historic house museum, owned and maintained by the Bath Preservation Trust to illustrate how wealthy owners of the late 18th century might have furnished and occupied such a house.

The Royal Crescent featured in the 2008 film The Duchess starring Kiera Knightley.

Although it is the most famous crescent, there are actually seven crescents in the city.

This was Britain's first ever circular street. Did you know that the diameter of The Circus matches that of Stonehenge?

From the air, the Royal Crescent and The Circus can be observed to be a giant circle and crescent, symbolising the sun and moon.

The inspiration for the design of The Circus was the Roman Coliseum, but whereas the Coliseum was designed to be seen from the outside, The Circle faces inward.

You can see different symbols decorating the edge of the building around The Circus: a total of 525 different emblems.

Did you know that Hollywood actor Nicholas Cage lived at The Circus for a while?

The Assembly Rooms were the social centre of late Georgian Bath. The fashionable people went there to eat, dance, gossip, flirt and gamble. Mothers would often bring their daughters here in the hopes of marrying them off to the eligible men of the city.

The Assembly Rooms opened in 1771 with a grand ball.

They are mentioned in 2 of Jane Austen's novels. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion and Charles Dickens also mentioned them in The Pickwick Papers.

This is one of the four bridges in the world which has shops right across it on both sides. The others are Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Rialto in Venice and Kramerbrucke in Erfurt.

The bridge was finished in 1774 at a cost of £11,000. It was built to connect the town of Bath with the newly built town of Bathwick.

The weir, running under the bridge, is where they filmed the suicide of Javert (Russell Crowe) in the film version of Les Misérables.

Did you know that a woman was banned from jumping into rivers after she had to be rescued three times? She jumped into the River Avon in Bath all three times.

The original Abbey church was the site of the coronation of the first king of England, Edgar in AD973.

In 1499 the Bishop of Bath and Wells had a dream which inspired him to build a new abbey church. This dream is represented on the west side of the Abbey by a ladder coming from heaven to earth with angels ascending and descending.

Elizabeth I called the Abbey the Lantern of the West because of the huge windows which flood the nave and light up the beautiful interior.

Can you count how many window Bath Abbey has? There are 52 and they are very large. They occupy 80 per cent of the whole wall space.

The Temple on this site was built on AD 60-70 and the bathing complex was built up over the next 300 years. At the very heart of the site is the Sacred Spring

Hot water rises to a temperature of 46 degrees celcius and at the rate of 1.7 million litres every day and has done this for thousands of years. This water is considered to be unsafe for bathing. Firstly because of lead pipes that feed the water but also because of infectious diseases! However the Romans believed that the mineral waters from the springs could cure any illness or ailment.