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3 unusual facts about Great Pulteney Street


Great Pulteney Street

Great Pulteney Street is a grand thoroughfare that connects Bathwick on the east of the River Avon with the City of Bath, England via the Robert Adam designed Pulteney Bridge.

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Famous former residents of the street have included the novelist Jane Austen and the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.

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After completion of the main street in 1877 local residents petitioned and successfully raised significant funds to build a grand column (rather like Nelson's Column in London).



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