| Baths 
          of the World 
         Bath, England is, of course, the original 
          place of that name - but there are plenty more, mainly in the US. Here 
          are the ones we know about, roughly in size order. We're visiting all the US ones in the first category (towns and villages) and ignoring all the US ones in the second category. Sorry if you live there, but we make the rules... 
        
	   US 
	 - towns and villages (11) Bath, Maine
 City, capital 
	 of Sagadahoc County, on Kennebec River. Harbour port with history, still important in shipbuilding, amid wonderful coast scenery
 Bath, Maine web site
 Trip report, pics
 Bath, New York State Town-size 
	 'village' (c. 1800), capital of Steuben County, southern NY, in rich agricultural area
 Trip report, pics
 
  Bath, West Virginia 'Town' 
	 that's really part of Berkeley Springs. Resort area with hot springs, formed c. 1800
 Trip report, pics
 Bath, Pennsylvania Little town outside Bethlehem, once famous for its cement works
 Trip report, pics
  Bath, Ohio Bath, Maine web site
 Village between Akron and Cleveland with very upmarket houses and an open-air village-life museum
 Trip report, pics
 Bath, Michigan
 Dormitory community for Lansing, MI, with an annual bath tub race!
 Trip report, pics
 Bath, South Carolina
 Former cotton mill town, part of Burnettown, in Horse Creek Valley
 Trip report, pics
 Bath, Illinois
 Village on Illinois River with huntin' shootin' and fishin', and four bars for 350 inhabitants
 Trip report, pics
 Bath, North Carolina
 Very historic little village dating back to 1705. Picturesque marina and lovely old town houses
 Trip report, pics
 Bath, New Hampshire
 Small 
	 village on Connecticut and Amonoosuc Rivers, with tow and a half covered bridges and a 'historic' souvenir shoppe
 Trip report, pics
 Bath, South Dakota
 A tiny settlement just outside Aberdeen, SD, of 180-odd, with a post office and a lot of grain silos
 Trip report, pics
 US - other BathsBath, Kentucky
 County in NE of state. Has once-famous 
	 mineral baths which gave the name. Rolling agricultural upland area
 Bath, Virginia
 County, supposedly which made the US Post Office change Bath, WV, to Berkeley Springs, WV, to avoid confusion
 Bath, Minnesota
 So small it doesn't show on my maps, and on the US census web site it's only a red blob in the middle of nowhere, so we're missing it out. Sorry.
 Bath, Iowa
 Same as above. Even Bill Bryson couldn't persuade me to go to Iowa
 Bath, Ohio
 ...x2. Two suburbs, one of Dayton, the other of Lima, and where's the pleasure in that?
 Bath, Indiana
 Now shown on my road map as 'New Bath' and 'Old Bath', so no go. After all, New York and York are not the same thing.
 CanadaBath, Ontario
 Historic village on Lake Ontario near Kingston. Established 1784 by United 
	 Empire Loyalists
 Trip report, pics
 Bath, New Brunswick
 Next to a Bristol. Friendly little village (pop. 653, it says!) on St John River
 Trip report, pics
   Jamaica Bath
 30 miles west of Kingston, an old thermal spa town with a hotel and some tourism
 Trip report, pics
 St Kitts-NevisBath, Nevis
 That's 'neevis', part of St Kitts-Nevis in the eastern 
	 Caribbean. Another old thermal spa town, once famous with Admiral Nelson's lot
 Trip report, pics
 BarbadosBath
 A former sugar plantation, now a bathing beach favoured by locals and leaders of the Barbadian Opposition
 Trip report, pics
 NetherlandsBath
 Collection of houses just 
	 north of Antwerp, near Bergen op Zoom, on the Schelde-Rhein cycle route
 Trip report
 ScotlandBath, Fife
 A tiny hamlet just east of Clackmannan
  There's also a Bath Springs, Alabama; 
	 and a Bath Island, part of Lahore in Pakistan. Plus, of course, Baden-Baden in Germany, Banos in 
	 Ecuador, etc. etc.... and, intriguingly, a 'Barth' on the coast of northern Germany, which is the way most people in the south of England seem to think the original one in pronounced. 
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