Bathford Area Guide

Bathford is six miles from Bath Spa train station and is in a lovely rural area with delightful views and easy access to Kingsdown Golf Club. The Crown pub is at the bottom of Bathford Hill, and in a commanding position at the top of Bathford Hill is the village Post Office and general stores which is a community shop with a paid manager but staffed by volunteers from the locality. Bathford has a number of large houses or mansions dating from the eighteenth century including Titan Barrow, Rock House, Eagle House, Sycamore House, and Bathford Manor. In the north of the parish stands Shockerwick House, a grade one listed mansion built in the 1750s by John Wood the Elder, now a BUPA Care home. In the south, Warleigh Manor nestles in the valley close to the river Avon. The village school has an ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted rating.