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10 APRIL: STOP PRESS!
Roman Baths stamp issued by Royal Mail
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Royal Mail’s A – Z of the UK Part
2, issued on 10 April, continues to celebrate some of the UK’s most
famous sights; ranging from ancient through to modern, and from the
significant to the spectacular.
In A-Z Part 2, the Roman
Baths are proudly featured.
Stephen Clews, Manager of the Roman
Baths, said: “The image on this beautiful stamp captures the Roman
Baths as few people ever see it, with dawn light breaking. In the
early morning the baths can be a calm and quiet space with mist
rising slowly from the waters, allowing the viewer to immerse in
tranquil solitude.”
Bath is the only World Heritage Site to be
featured in the second part of the A-Z of Great Britain stamp set.
The Roman Baths that exist today dates back to 60-70 AD, and were
expanded into a bathing complex over the next 300 years
The hot springs at the baths originate from
rainwater from the Mendip Hills; the water percolates 2,700m
underground before rising at a temperature of 46 degrees, at a rate
of 1,170,000 per day.
The City of Bath was inscribed as a World Heritage Site 25
years ago in 1987. The entire city is covered by the status -
one of only a handful of cities with the title.
Roman Baths postage stamp 10 April 2012
Image courtesy of Royal Mail.
Photographer: David Noton