Student Accommodation in Widcombe

Student housing in Widcombe

Widcombe sits just across the River Avon from central Bath, close enough to everything but with a pace of its own. Search for student housing in Widcombe on Housr and you can filter by weekly price, bedroom count and bathroom size, then check exactly where a property sits on the interactive map before you book a viewing. You get a proper high street on your doorstep and you can still make a 9am lecture without setting three alarms.

Cross Halfpenny Bridge and you're in the city centre inside ten minutes. Bath Spa station is just as close, a few minutes' walk over the same bridge, so trips home or a day in Bristol don't eat into your week.

What's around Widcombe

Widcombe Parade is where most of it happens: a run of Georgian and Victorian shopfronts dating back to around 1750. Widcombe Deli covers good coffee and pastries, the Ring O' Bells does a decent Sunday roast, and The Ram is the one most students end up in after a shift in the library. The Colombian Company pulls a steady queue most mornings. For the practical stuff there's a Co-op on Widcombe Hill, a pharmacy, and Widcombe Laundry Co. on Claverton Buildings if your house didn't come with a washing machine.

Above the parade, Widcombe Hill climbs toward Prior Park Landscape Garden, a National Trust garden with a view back over the whole city and one of the world's few surviving Palladian bridges. Keep going and you reach Prior Park Garden Centre, which has a farm shop and café worth the walk on a free afternoon. The Kennet and Avon Canal meets the River Avon at the bottom of the area, at one of Britain's deepest canal locks, and its towpath is a flat, easy stretch to walk or cycle when the hills feel like too much.

Getting around

The centre is a five to ten minute walk over Halfpenny Bridge, and Bath Spa station is just as close if you're heading to Bristol or London for the weekend. Plenty of students living in student houses in Widcombe skip the bus altogether for that reason.

For campus, the U3 stops directly in Widcombe at Pulteney Gardens and Lyncombe Hill and runs between both of Bath's universities without a change. If you want a more frequent service, walk the ten minutes into the centre and pick up the U1 from Grand Parade instead, which runs roughly every 20 minutes on weekdays and takes about 25 minutes up to the University of Bath campus on Claverton Down.

Universities near Widcombe

The University of Bath is about two miles from Widcombe, up on Claverton Down, and it's home to most of the students who choose to live in this part of the city. Bath Spa University's Newton Park campus sits on the same U3 route in the other direction, so Widcombe works whichever end of Bath you're studying at.

Accommodation in Widcombe

That's what makes student housing in Widcombe worth a proper look: Georgian terraces split into shared houses, smaller studios closer to the parade, and en-suite rooms scattered in between. On Housr, filter by weekly price, bedroom and bathroom count, or search specifically for single rooms and studios, then switch between the list, tile and map views to see exactly where a property sits relative to the parade or the bridge into town.

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Start browsing student housing in Widcombe on Housr: filter by price and room type, drop pins on the interactive map, and book a viewing without leaving the page. Fancy comparing the Georgian terraces of Bathwick across the river, the quieter hilltop of Combe Down, or every listing across Bath? Those searches are just as easy to switch to.