Gay Street serves as the steep, straight bridge between Queen Square and The Circus in the heart of Bath. Designed by John Wood the Elder in the seventeen thirties, the street acts as a rigid, geometric connector for his ambitious city plan. It earned a peculiar reputation in eighteen eleven when Jane Austen moved into number thirteen. She spent her time there watching the bustling social traffic from her window, noting the constant parade of people traveling between the upper and lower town.
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