Sunday 21st September 2025

Jane Austen's Bath - minibus tour

9:00 (duration 3 hours)

Meet: Outside the Jane Austen Centre, 40 Gay Street, BA1 2NT

A combination of walking and driving visiting outdoor locations in Austen's Persuasion and Northanger Abbey. Includes Charlcombe, described by Jane 'as being sweetly situated in a little green valley', and finishes with the best view of Bath from that 'Noble Hill'.
For this event you will travel in a small luxury 21st Century minibus driven by your tour guide Adge Secker.

Tickets £48

A Very Private Public Breakfast

10:00 (duration 1hr 30mins)

Venue: Kinwarton, 3 Upper Camden Place, (part of) Camden Rd, BA1 5HX (20 mins walk from central Bath)

Sample the delights of an 18th Century public breakfast just as Jane Austen did in Sydney Gardens. Bread rolls, toasted fruit bread, cake, tea (Jane Austen blend) or coffee – all in the private dining room of a typical Regency Bath house. Breakfast is accompanied with a talk by Jane Tapley.

Tickets £16

Jane Austen & Bath - walking tour

10:00 & 14:30 (duration 1hr 30mins)

Meet: Outside the Jane Austen Centre, 40 Gay Street, BA1 2NT

'Oh! Who could ever be tired of Bath?’ So said Jane Austen’s character Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, which along with her novel Persuasion is set in Bath. Through family links and having visited and lived in the city, Austen knew Bath very well indeed. Come and find out more on this walking tour led by Mr Knightley of The Jane Austen Centre.

Tickets £14

Mini Prom

12noon (duration 35 mins - 1 hour)

Meet: At the Victorian Park Bandstand, the other side of Royal Avenue to the Royal Crescent.

Meet for an informal stroll through Victoria Park and the Botanical Gardens, ending in front of the Royal Crescent for one last 250th birthday photo to celebrate the end of the 2025 Jane Austen Festival.
Costume recommended, this event will take place in all weathers. Please keep to the pavements and adhere to all 21st Century traffic rules.

Free Event - no booking required - turn up on the day and join in!

"Carriages" to Meryton & Longbourn - minibus tour

13:15 (duration 4 hours)

Meet: Outside the Jane Austen Centre, 40 Gay Street, BA1 2NT

Starting with a driving tour of Austen’s Bath, then onto the village of Luckington to visit the St Mary with St Ethelbert Church and walk in the footsteps of the P&P 1995 cast. Next Lacock – a village trapped in time and the location for Meryton & Highbury. Then back to Bath to finish with the best view of Bath from ‘that Noble Hill’.
For this event you will travel in a small luxury 21st Century minibus driven by your tour guide Adge Secker.

Tickets £58

Croquet Game

14:00 (duration 1hr 30mins)

Venue: Bath Croquet Club, Great Pulteney Street, Recreation Ground, BA2 4DS (entrance via Great Pulteney Street)

Spend 1 hour experiencing the Regency sport of "Pall-Mall" with an outdoor croquet game at Bath Croquet Club. Equipment and introductory instructions provided, enjoy a relaxed game of croquet, followed by post-match refreshments in the Croquet Pavilion.
Refreshments included in the ticket price.

Tickets £25

Love and Friendship - film showing 

18:30 (duration 2hrs 30mins)

Venue: Widcombe Social Club, Widcombe Hill, Bath BA2 6AA

Whit Stillman’s sparkling, critically-acclaimed adaptation of Jane Austen’s early, posthumously-published novella ‘Lady Susan’ stars Kate Beckinsale, radiant as the scheming and scandalous widow Lady Susan Vernon out to secure suitable husbands for herself and daughter. Beckinsale has a ball, creating an unforgettable comic character dressed in arguably the most splendid costumes ever created for Austen on film. "The funniest, most deliciously venomous Jane Austen movie ever made" – Empire Magazine.

Tickets £8 - £10

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