| ign="center"> | | | | After the Roman invasion of Britain came the Saxon |
| Roman Bath | | | | invasion. In 577 AD the Saxons were victorious at the |
| Legend has it that Bath was Founded in 860BC by the | | | | battle of Dyrhan where they then went on to capture |
| soon to be King Bladud, father of King Lear. The story | | | | Bath. |
| goes that Bladud had caught leprosy and was | | | | In the 9th century Bath became one of Alfred the |
| banished from court and sent to look after pigs. The | | | | Greats network of fortified towns. They were |
| pigs too suffered from Leprosy but Bladud noticed | | | | designed so that in the event of an invasion by the |
| that after they rolled around in the hot mud they were | | | | Danes all the local men could gather at the fortified |
| cured. Bladud copied the pigs and found that he to had | | | | towns to repeal they invasion. By the 10th century the |
| been cured thanks to the Bath mud. After he became | | | | town was flourishing and in 973 Edgar the first king of |
| king he founded the city on the site of the spring that | | | | all England was crowned here. |
| cured him. | | | | Middle ages |
| It�s not known exactly when the city was | | | | During the 1088 rebellion rebels sacked Bath and |
| founded or when the healing properties of its water | | | | burned its monastery to the ground, though the town |
| first came to light. We do know that the Romans built | | | | soon recovered. In the 12th century a great abbey |
| a temple here in around 50 AD. They dedicated the | | | | was created which dominated the town. |
| temple to Sul, the Celtic goddess of hot springs and | | | | During the middle ages the town was still popular with |
| Minerva the Roman goddess of healing. By the AD | | | | those seeking treatment for their ills with people |
| 60s a town had started to form which became know | | | | coming from far and wide to bath in the hot spring. A |
| as Aquae Sulis, the waters of Sul. | | | | leper hospital was set up just out side of the town. In |
| By the 4th Century the Roman civilisation began to | | | | 1189 Bath was give its first charter, granting the people |
| decline and in 407 AD Roman troops left Britain for | | | | of Bath certain rights. |
| good. Little is know of what happened to the town in | | | | This article was written on behalf of The Royal Hotel |
| the immediate aftermath of the Roman withdrawal. | | | | a Bath Hotel providing accommodation in Bath. |
| Saxon Bath | | | | |