page_title: Royal Crescent
section_title: Film and television
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Crescent / Film and television
caption_attribution_description: The Royal Crescent in Bath, England. This is a panorama of six segments, taken with a Canon 5D and 70-200mm f/2.8L lens.
context_page_description: The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood, the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774, it is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom and is a Grade I listed building. Although some changes have been made to the various interiors over the years, the Georgian stone facade remains much as it was when first built.
  The 500-foot-long crescent has 114 Ionic columns on the first floor with an entablature in a Palladian style above. It was the first crescent of terraced houses to be built and an example of "rus in urbe" with its views over the parkland opposite.
  Many notable people have either lived or stayed in the Royal Crescent since it was built over 240 years ago, and some are commemorated on special plaques attached to the relevant buildings. Of the crescent's 30 townhouses, 10 are still full-size townhouses; 18 have been split into flats of various sizes; one is the No. 1 Royal Crescent museum and the large central house at number 16 is the Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa.
context_section_description: In 1965 the black comedy The Wrong Box (1966) used the Royal Crescent extensively as a location, standing in for London. The 1965 film Catch Us If You Can also had a sequence filmed outside the crescent and in one of its houses.
  In 2007, a TV edition of Jane Austen's Persuasion included many scenes shot at the Crescent, where the Elliot family was supposedly living while in Bath. The Crescent featured in the 2008 film The Duchess starring Keira Knightley.
  The fictional heroine of 2008 BBC1 archaeology thriller Bonekickers was depicted as living in the Crescent. In 2014, the hotel was a location for BBC1 series Our Girl.
caption: A panoramic view of the Royal Crescent. The ha-ha can be seen separating the upper and lower lawns.
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