About This Site And The Free Walks
This site lists what costs nothing in Bath, plus the 3 free, pay what you want walking tours on GuruWalk. Every walk belongs to an independent local guide, and the site runs none of them.
What This Site Is
This is a directory, and nothing else. It gathers the parts of Bath that cost nothing to enter or to walk, from Abbey Churchyard to the Kennet and Avon Canal towpath, and sets them beside the free, pay what you want walking tours that run on GuruWalk. No ticket is sold here and no booking is taken. Every reservation happens on GuruWalk, on the page of the guide who leads the walk, and the free walking tours page gathers them all.
- Free at any hourAbbey Churchyard, a public yard
- £9.00Adult sightseeing at Bath Abbey
- Wednesday after 3pmHolburne Collection displays are free
What Counts As Free
The bar is simple. A place belongs on this site only if entering it costs nothing, or if the free part carries its condition in plain words. Where an attraction splits in two, the split is written out rather than smoothed over.
- The Abbey Churchyard is open at any time and costs nothing, while sightseeing inside Bath Abbey takes a ticket.
- The street and lawn in front of the Royal Crescent are free to walk. No. 1 Royal Crescent is named as the ticketed museum it is.
- At the Victoria Art Gallery the free part is the Upper Gallery, and the Lower Gallery exhibitions are written up as paid.
- The Holburne Museum appears with its condition attached, since the Collection displays are free on Wednesdays after 3pm and general admission is 16.50 GBP.
- Wednesday after 3pmHolburne Collection displays, last admission 4.30pm
- 18 and underFree at all times at the Holburne
- £16.50Holburne general admission otherwise
Closed doors are described as closed, the Fashion Museum among them. The Roman Baths take a ticket. The paved square outside them is the part that costs nothing.
- 1,243GuruWalk reviews across the three walks
- 904Of those reviews are in English
- 4.69Bath's Hidden History, 896 GuruWalk reviews
How The Walks Are Chosen
Only free, pay what you want tours appear on the walks page, and all of them are reserved on GuruWalk. Each walk belongs to an independent local guide, and this site has no hand in who leads it or where it meets. The walk that runs in Spanish only is marked as such, so nobody arrives expecting English.
Bath also has a free walk that is not on GuruWalk at all: the Mayor of Bath's Honorary Guides, the city's own volunteer guides. They accept no tips and no gratuities, and their classic city centre walk needs no booking. Walkers simply gather outside the Pump Room in the Abbey Churchyard. They are written up here as a free local option, never as a walk this site sells.
How This Site Is Paid For
The GuruWalk links on this site are referral links. When a reader reserves a walk through one of them, GuruWalk pays this site a commission, and that is the site's only income. It costs the walker nothing. The walk stays free, pay what you want, and no amount is added on the reader's side. GuruWalk is the only booking platform named anywhere on these pages.
Independence And Corrections
There is no byline here, no team page and no persona behind the writing. The site is independent of the guides it lists and of the places it describes. It operates no tours and takes no bookings of any kind.
If a free thing starts charging, a condition changes or a detail is wrong, email info@freethingstodoinbath.com.